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The Stonerose Interpretive center & Eocene Fossil Site is a 501c (3) non-profit public museum and fossil dig located in Republic, Washington. The center was established in 1989 and houses fossils that have been featured in National Geographic Magazine, Sunset magazine, and numerous scientific works.
The Elevation Science Institute, formerly known as the Bighorn Basin Paleontological Institute, [1] is a non-profit 501 (c) (3) organization dedicated to paleontology and earth science research, education, and outreach. [2] The organization conducts paleontological field work in the Bighorn Basin of Montana and Wyoming, largely focusing on ...
The described fossils were of a tooth and jaw fragment recovered from a marl pit from Monmouth County, New Jersey, which Mitchell described as "a lizard monster or saurian animal resembling the famous fossil reptile of Maestricht", implying that the fossils had affinities with the then-unnamed M. hoffmannii holotype from Maastricht.
The Gray Fossil Site is an Early Pliocene assemblage of fossils dating between 4.5 and 4.9 million years old, located near the community of Gray in Washington County, Tennessee. The site was discovered during road construction on Tennessee State Route 75 by the Tennessee Department of Transportation in May 2000, [1] after which local officials ...
A hypothetical reconstruction of "Archaeoraptor" and its known constituents, Yanornis and Microraptor. " Archaeoraptor " is the informal generic name for a fossil chimera from China in an article published in National Geographic magazine in 1999. The magazine claimed that the fossil was a "missing link" between birds and terrestrial theropod ...
The Cerutti Mastodon site is a paleontological and possible archeological site located in San Diego County, California. In 2017, researchers announced that broken mastodon bones at the site had been dated to around 130,700 years ago. The bones were found with cobblestones displaying use-wear and impact marks among the otherwise fine-grain sands.
Exhuming the First American Mastodon, oil on canvas by Charles Willson Peale (1806). Paleontology in the United States can first be traced to the Native Americans, who have been familiar with fossils for thousands of years. They both told myths about them and applied them to practical purposes.