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Discovered at an oil sands mine north of Fort McMurray, Alberta, the specimen is remarkable for being among the best-preserved dinosaur fossils of its size ever found. It preserved not only the armor ( osteoderms ) in their life positions, but also remains of their keratin sheaths, overlying skin, and stomach contents from the animal's last meal.
The presence of marlin fossils could indicate that parts of the formation deposited at bathyal depths, between 200 and 2.000 meters deep, [3] and Fierstine argues that the preservation of the material suggests that it was not subject to extensive postmortem transportation.
Fossils may be found either associated with a geological formation or at a single geographic site. Geological formations consist of rock that was deposited during a specific period of time. They usually extend for large areas, and sometimes there are different important sites in which the same formation is exposed.
Main Vein (a quartz-gold vein), outcrop exposure at Nalunaq Gold Mine, southern Greenland Inoceramus steenstrup, world's largest fossil mollusk, found on the Nuussuaq Peninsula in western Greenland. Greenland is the largest island on Earth. Only one-fifth of its surface area is exposed bedrock, the rest being covered by ice.
Plant fossils, especially seeds and fruits, are found in abundance and have been collected from the London Clay for almost 300 years. [10] Some 350 named species of plant have been found, making the London Clay flora one of the world's most diverse for fossil seeds and fruits. [ 11 ]
[3] [4] In the mid-1980s, the site quickly became recognized as an important location containing possibly the oldest metazoan fossils in North America, and the most ancient deep-water marine fossils in the world. A five-kilometre stretch of coastline was first established provisionally as a reserve by the provincial government in 1984 and was ...
San Pedro High School discovered a deposit of marine fossils on campus in 2022 and began collaborating with local paleontologists to uncover secrets from the Palos Verdes Peninsula's geological past.
Fossil footprints of dinosaurs from the Hell Creek Formation are very rare. As of 2017, there is only one find of a possible Tyrannosaurus rex footprint, dating from 2007 and described a year later. [19] The largest Triceratops skull ever discovered, nicknamed 'Dragon King', was found in Glendive, Montana, which is in the Hell Creek Formation ...