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The Riverbluff Cave is a paleontological site discovered in the United States, near Springfield, Missouri.The entrance is filled with stalactites, stalagmites and columns. . The cave is about 830,000 years old (making it the oldest known fossil cave site in the US [1]) and 610 m long, featuring Pleistocene fossils, notably of the short-faced bear (Artcodus simus) the largest bear species on ...
In 1945 Dr. M. G. Mehl of the University of Missouri and his students discovered peccary fossils in the same cave that preserved the fossils discovered in 1820. [17] In 1951 more than two hundred bones and teeth were excavated from a swampy area of a farm slightly southwest of Vienna belonging to a man named Andrew Buschmann. [ 17 ]
The Northview Formation is a geologic formation in southwest Missouri. Its fauna includes brachiopods and abundant trace fossils of the Mississippian subperiod and Kinderhookian Series. [ 3 ]
Lopinot, Neal H., Jack H. Ray, Edwin R. Hajic, Rolfe E. Mandel. 1998 Stratified Paleoindian deposits at the Big Eddy site, southwest Missouri. Current Research in the Pleistocene 15:39-42. Missouri State University, Center for Archaeological Research. 2006 Big Eddy.
The Weaubleau structure is a probable meteorite impact site in western Missouri near the towns of Gerster, Iconium, Osceola, and Vista. It is believed to have been caused by a 1,200-foot (370 m) meteoroid between 335 and 340 million years ago [ 1 ] during the middle Mississippian Period (Latest Osagean to Earliest Meramecian ).
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
The Southwest Missouri Prehistoric Rock Shelter and Cave Sites Discontiguous Archeological District is a historic district spread out over discontiguous sites in four Missouri counties. It includes 20 contributing sites. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. [1] [2]
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.