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Albanese, John, "Reconnaissance Geological Study of the Fetterman Mammoth Site (18CO1401) Converse County, Wyoming", Manuscript on file, Office of the Wyoming State Archaeologist, Laramie, 2000 Haynes, Gary, "Sites in the Americas with Possible or Probable Evidence for the Butchering of Proboscideans", PaleoAmerica 8.3, pp. 187-214, 2022
By the end of the last ice age (10,000–12,000 years ago), camelids were extinct in North America. [3] As of 2007, there were over seven million llamas and alpacas in South America. Some were imported to the United States and Canada late in the 20th century; their descendants now number more than 158,000 llamas and 100,000 alpacas. [5]
Lama is a genus containing the South American camelids: the wild guanaco and vicuña and the domesticated llama, alpaca, and the extinct chilihueque.Before the Spanish conquest of the Americas, llamas, alpacas, and chilihueques were the only domesticated ungulates of the continent.
This list of the prehistoric life of Wyoming contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Wyoming.
A number of notable outlaws of the time started their careers in Wyoming, including Butch Cassidy and Harry Longabaugh, both of whom were incarcerated in Wyoming as young men. [25] A remote area in Johnson County, Wyoming known as the Hole-in-the-Wall was a well known hideout for a loose association of outlaw gangs known as the Hole in the Wall ...
Llamas were selected in part for their familiarity with steeper, rockier landscapes, and they have proved to be an excellent fit, according to the video. Their anatomy is ideal for protecting the ...
A San cave painting dating to prior to 1835 may be inspired by dicynodont remains. [6]As early as the 6th century BC, the Greek philosopher Xenophanes of Colophon (570–480 BC) recognized that some fossil shells were remains of shellfish, which he used to argue that what was at the time dry land was once under the sea. [7]
Small dinosaur footprints were also discovered in western Wyoming during the 1930s. They were formally described as Agialopus wyomingensis. [6] They were of Late Triassic age. [5] Uintatherium. In 1940 C. L. Gazin led an expedition into Wyoming on behalf of the Smithsonian Institution. Their biggest find was a nearly complete skeleton of ...