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The bones were the disarticulated remains of bears, deer, mice, and a kind of eastern wood rat not currently found in the area of the fossil discovery. [17] More recently, in 1989, the Pennsylvanian sea lily, Delocrinus missouriensis, was designated the Missouri state fossil. In 2004, Hypsibema missouriensis was designated the state dinosaur ...
Fossil of the Middle-Late Ordovician giant trilobite Isotelus. †Isotelus †Isotelus gigas †Isotelus maximus †Jeffersonia †Kendallina †Kirengella †Kirkella – type locality for genus †Lepidophyllum †Lingula †Liroceras †Matthevia †Maximites †Meristella †Meristina †Metacoceras †Murchisonia – tentative report
This list of the Paleozoic life of Missouri contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Missouri and are between 538.8 and 252.17 million years of age. There is no Permian age rocks on the surface in Missouri, so beware of any fossils identified as such in the state.
This article contains a list of fossil-bearing stratigraphic units in the state of Missouri, U.S. Sites. Group or Formation
New research shows that Homo sapiens traveled from Africa to East Asia and toward Australia up to 86,000 years ago.
A fossil preparator handles fossils found in Petrified Forest National Park at the museum's demonstration lab. Visitors are not allowed to take fossils from the park.
The fossils, unearthed in Montceau-les-Mines, are of juvenile individuals, dating to about 305 million years ago. At the time, this locale was near the equator, with a tropical climate and a ...
Elevations and strata dips in the Ozark structural dome generally radiate downward and outward away from the Saint Francois mountains. These ancient mountains may be the only area in the Midwestern United States never to have been submerged, (as evidenced by the lack of marine fossils) existing as an island archipelago in the Paleozoic seas.