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The term "Okanagan Highlands" for Eocene formations of the region was coined by Wesley Wehr and Howard Schorn in a 1992 Washington Geology paper on the conifer research at Republic. The name was derived from the current Okanagan Highlands but applied to the, as then identified, microthermal forests preserved at Republic and Princeton. [18]
The paleoflora of the Eocene Okanagan Highlands includes all plant and fungi fossils preserved in the Eocene Okanagan Highlands Lagerstätten.The highlands are a series of Early Eocene geological formations which span an 1,000 km (620 mi) transect of British Columbia, Canada and Washington state, United States and are known for the diverse and detailed plant fossils which represent an upland ...
This list of prehistoric sites in the U.S. State of Colorado includes historical and archaeological sites of humans from their earliest times in Colorado to just before the Colorado historic period, which ranges from about 12,000 BC to AD 19th century. The Period is defined by the culture enjoyed at the time, from the earliest hunter-gatherers ...
Researchers uncovered “remarkably complete” fossils from the skull and jaws of the mammal in rocks that date back to the period just after the extinction of the dinosaurs in the Corral Bluffs ...
The formation is a lagerstätte with exceptionally well-preserved plant and insect fossils has been found, along with fossil epithermal hot springs. The Klondike Mountain formation is the youngest in a series of formations which belong to the Challis Sequence volcanics, and is the southernmost of the Eocene Okanagan Highlands paleolake ...
He did retain one fossil from the initial collection which was later donated to the USGS collections. The largest single work on the fish of the Okanagan Highlands was published by Mark Wilson in 1977 and covered fossils collected from the known British Columbian Okanagan Highlands fossil sites of the time. [113]
Paleontologists unearth 70-million-year-old ‘swamp dweller’ fossil in Colorado. KDVR Denver. Brooke Williams. October 23, 2024 at 8:16 PM.
Fossil Legends of the First Americans. Princeton University Press. 2005. ISBN 0-691-11345-9. Maps and Directions. Morrison Natural History Museum. Accessed 12-20-12. Plan Your Visit. University of Colorado Museum of Natural History. Accessed 12-20-12. Murray, Marian (1974). Hunting for Fossils: A Guide to Finding and Collecting Fossils in All ...