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This list of the prehistoric life of Illinois contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of ...
This list of the Paleozoic life of Illinois contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Illinois and are between 538.8 and 252.17 million years of age.
The environment of Pennsylvanian Illinois was comparable to the modern Amazon River delta. [9] Almost every Pennsylvanian deposit in Illinois preserves evidence of this ancient flora and such deposits are located in almost every region of the state. [12] The vegetation of these ancient swamps became Illinois' modern coal deposits. [9] [11]
The site covers more than 3 acres and extends 30 feet down into the alluvial deposits of the Illinois River valley. Over the course of its excavation between 1969 and 1978, Koster produced deeply buried evidence of ancient human occupation from the early Archaic period (BC 7500) to the Mississippian period (AD 1000).
The Hoxie Farm site (11Ck-4) is located on Thorn Creek in Thornton, Illinois Cook County Forest Preserve in Cook County, Illinois, near the city of Chicago. It is classified as a late prehistoric to Protohistoric /Early Historic site with Upper Mississippian Huber affiliation.
This timeline of prehistory covers the time from the appearance of Homo sapiens approximately 315,000 years ago in Africa to the invention of writing, over 5,000 years ago, with the earliest records going back to 3,200 BC.
Lake Chicago was a prehistoric proglacial lake that is the ancestor of what is now ... Illinois State Geological Survey, Bulletin 65. 118 pages. Killey, Myrna M. 1998
The earliest evidence for life on Earth includes: 3.8 billion-year-old biogenic hematite in a banded iron formation of the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt in Canada; [30] graphite in 3.7 billion-year-old metasedimentary rocks in western Greenland; [31] and microbial mat fossils in 3.48 billion-year-old sandstone in Western Australia.