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Paleontology in Oklahoma refers to paleontological research occurring within or conducted by people from the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Oklahoma has a rich fossil record spanning all three eras of the Phanerozoic Eon. [1] Oklahoma is the best source of Pennsylvanian fossils in the United States due to having an exceptionally complete geologic ...
This article contains a list of fossil-bearing stratigraphic units in the state of Oklahoma, U.S. Sites ... List of Formations in the National Geologic Map Database ...
The McLemore Site is located on a terrace overlooking Cobb Creek outside the town of Colony in central western Oklahoma. The first major archaeological investigation took place in 1960 under the auspices of Dr. Robert E. Bell of Oklahoma State University. Three sections of the site were excavated: an area of cache and refuse pits, an area once ...
It depicts Oklahoma’s state fossil, the large carnivore Saurophaganax maximus challenging a representation of the largest known Apatosaurus (92 ft), reconstructed by upscaling smaller apatosaur fossil specimens to match the largest known pieces currently preserved in the Sam Noble Museum’s vertebrate paleontology collection.
Fossil of the Cambrian-Middle Devonian trilobite Cheirurus †Cheirurus †Chonetes †Chonetes mesoloba †Cladochonus †Cleiothyridina †Cleiothyridina orbicularis †Clepsydrops; Cliona †Colobomycter – type locality for genus †Colobomycter pholeter – type locality for species †Composita †Composita mexicana †Composita rotunda
This list of fossil sites is a worldwide list of localities known well for the presence of fossils. Some entries in this list are notable for a single, unique find, while others are notable for the large number of fossils found there.
An amateur fossil hunter discovered a 20,000-year-old Columbian mammoth tusk, the first intact find in Mississippi, revealing new insights into the state's prehistoric era.
This list of the Paleozoic life of Oklahoma contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Oklahoma and are between 541 and 252.17 million years of age.