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Fossil of the Middle-Late Ordovician giant trilobite Isotelus. †Isotelus †Isotelus maximus †Kindleoceras †Kionoceras †Kockelella †Lambeoceras †Leiosphaeridia †Lepidodendron †Lepidodendron aculeatum; Lingula †Liroceras – tentative report †Loxomma †Loxomma lintonensis – type locality for species †Maelonoceras ...
This list of the Paleozoic life of Ohio contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Ohio and are between 538.8 and 252.17 million years of age.
No Precambrian fossils are known from Ohio, so the state's fossils record does not start until the Cambrian Period. [2] During the later part of the period, Ohio was covered in seawater and located 10 degrees south of the equator. By the end of the Cambrian the sea was shallow and the climate dry. Although marine life was diverse during the ...
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; ... The Ohio Shale is a geologic formation in Ohio. It preserves fossils dating back to the Devonian period. See also
Printable version; In other projects ... Ohio: Country United ... The Plum Brook Shale is a geologic formation in Ohio. It preserves fossils dating back to the ...
Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item ... The Mount Auburn Formation is a geologic formation in Ohio. It preserves fossils dating back to the Ordovician ...
Arkansas: still no state fossil in Arkansas, though the state designated Arkansaurus as its state dinosaur. [1] District of Columbia: Capitalsaurus is the state dinosaur of Washington D.C., but the District has not chosen a state fossil. Florida: There is no state fossil in Florida, though agatised coral, which is a fossil, is the state stone ...
Index fossils must have a short vertical range, wide geographic distribution and rapid evolutionary trends. Another term, "zone fossil", is used when the fossil has all the characters stated above except wide geographical distribution; thus, they correlate the surrounding rock to a biozone rather than a specific time period.