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Diagram illustrating the largest (grey) and most conservative (red) size estimates of the Miocene-Pliocene shark Carcharocles megalodon (sometimes Carcharodon or Otodus megalodon) with a whale shark (violet), great white shark (green), and anachronistic human (black) to scale †Otodus megalodon; Otus †Otus asio †Oxyrhina †Oxyura ...
During the Triassic, central Virginia was a rift basin. [1] Brachiopods were still present in Virginia during the Mesozoic. [4] On land, the early Mesozoic plants of Virginia included Equisetales, gymnosperms, Cycadeles, cycads, and conifers. This flora is almost identical to that from contemporary deposits in North Carolina. [4]
The Saltville Valley today is located in the valley and ridge province of the Appalachian Mountains near southwest Virginia. [1] The valley is shaped like a scalene triangle, and it measures in elevation 1740’/530 m above sea level, 8000’/2.4 km lengthwise, and 2750’/0.84 km at its greatest width.
Daugherty's Cave and Breeding Site is a Native American archaeological site in Russell County, Virginia, near Lebanon. The site includes materials dating from the Early Archaic Period to the time of European contact. Digs at the site have recovered large numbers of animal bones dating from the Middle Archaic Period. [2]
The shark-scavenged remains were found in the ocean east of Virginia's Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge and were towed ashore for a necropsy to determine the cause of death.
The Thunderbird Archaeological District, near Limeton, Virginia, is an archaeological district described as consisting of "three sites—Thunderbird Site, the Fifty Site, and the Fifty Bog—which provide a stratified cultural sequence spanning Paleo-Indian cultures through the end of Early Archaic times with scattered evidence of later occupation."
This list of the Paleozoic life of Virginia contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Virginia and are between 538.8 and 252.17 million years of age.
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