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During the Ice Age, Virginia was home to mastodons. During the late 18th century, Thomas Jefferson directed his scholarly attention to local fossils. Dinosaur tracks were discovered at Oak Hill in the 1920s. The scallop Chesapecten jeffersonius is the Virginia state fossil.
Fossil of the Middle-Late Ordovician giant trilobite Isotelus. †Isotelus †Isotelus maximus †Kingstonia †Kionoceras †Komaspidella †Kootenia †Krausella †Kutorgina †Labyrinthus †Latouchella; Restoration of the Carboniferous-Late Triassic club moss relative Lepidodendron. Eli Heimans (1911). †Lepidodendron †Levisoceras; Lingula
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.
Animals such as the Columbian mammoth used to roam the area 12,000 years ago.
In 1687, Martin Lister published a drawing of C. jeffersonius, making it the first North American fossil to be illustrated in scientific literature. [2]In 1824, geologist John Finch gathered a large collection of mollusk fossils, including Chesapecten jeffersonius, from the vicinity of Yorktown, Virginia, and gave them to scientists at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP).
A fossil hunter was scouring a Mississippi creek for remnants of the past when he came across the discovery of a lifetime — a tusk from an ice age Columbian mammoth. He stumbled onto a large ...
Mastodon and other ice age vertebrates Zion National Park: ... Maryland and Virginia: Arkona Shale: Devonian: North America: Canada: Ontario ... Dinosaur fossil ...
Gold miners are finding fossils and mummified animals from the Ice Age. Now paleontologists have an ancient wolf pup, a baby mammoth, and a squirrel ball.