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In 2024, Flannery et al. described Opalios splendens as a new genus and species of early monotreme based on these fossil remains. They erected the new monotypic family Opalionidae within the Ornithorhynchoidea —the superfamily also containing modern echidnas and platypus —to house Opalios due to its similarity to both of these extant lineages.
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 ...
Fossil Legends of the First Americans. Princeton University Press. 2005. ISBN 0-691-11345-9. Murray, Marian (1974). Hunting for Fossils: A Guide to Finding and Collecting Fossils in All 50 States. Collier Books. p. 348. ISBN 9780020935506. Springer, Dale, Judy Scotchmoor. July 14, 2010. "Missouri, US." The Paleontology Portal. Accessed ...
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.
An amateur fossil hunter has uncovered a 7 ft-long, fully intact mammoth tusk in a creek near a Mississippi river stream, a world-first discovery that sheds more light on the region’s ecology ...
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
Researchers uncovered “remarkably complete” fossils from the skull and jaws of the mammal in rocks that date back to the period just after the extinction of the dinosaurs in the Corral Bluffs ...
The leucistic white platypus along a river bank near several turtles. Researchers saw the white platypus 10 times between February 2021 and July 2023, the study said.