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Paleontology in Illinois refers to paleontological research occurring within or conducted by people from the U.S. state of Illinois. Scientists have found that Illinois was covered by a sea during the Paleozoic Era. Over time this sea was inhabited by animals including brachiopods, clams, corals, crinoids, sea snails, sponges, and trilobites.
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.
Paul Sereno. Paul Callistus Sereno (born October 11, 1957) is a professor of paleontology at the University of Chicago who has discovered several new dinosaur species on several continents, including at sites in Inner Mongolia, Argentina, Morocco and Niger. [1] One of his most widely publicized discoveries is that of a nearly complete specimen ...
Selected Paleozoic taxa of Illinois. Illustration of a fossil of the Carboniferous-Permian spider Arthrolycosa. Charles Emerson Beecher (1889). Fossil of the Middle-Late Ordovician giant trilobite Isotelus. Life restoration of the Carboniferous-Permian amphibian Phlegethontia.
Paleontology in Illinois; References. Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database" This page was ...
Pages in category "Paleontology in Illinois" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
University of Chicago. David M. Raup (April 24, 1933 – July 9, 2015) was a University of Chicago paleontologist. Raup studied the fossil record and the diversity of life on Earth. Raup contributed to the knowledge of extinction events along with his colleague Jack Sepkoski. They suggested that the extinction of dinosaurs 66 mya was part of a ...
Charles Albert Repenning (August 4, 1922 in Oak Park, Illinois – January 5, 2005 in Lakewood, Colorado) [2] was an American paleontologist and zoologist noted for his work on shrews, fossil rodents, modern pinnipeds and their extinct relatives, the Desmostylia. He identified and researched the Paleoparadoxia found during the excavation of ...