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Fossils have been used by Native Americans for evidence about the past, healing, personal protection, and trade. [4] Fossil sites were often chosen as the setting of vision quests. [5] Modern Comanche in Oklahoma still use dinosaur and mammoth bones for medicinal purposes. [4]
The Pipe Creek Sinkhole preserves an ancient wetland.It was created by the collapse of a limestone cave in a Silurian reef formation. That left a steep-sided depression about 75 meters (246 ft) long, 50 meters (164 ft) wide and 11 meters (36 ft) deep.
Construction used a Caterpillar 235C excavator, which has a reach of 39.4 feet and a downward dig of 26.4 feet at ground level. The site was found during the construction of a drainage system. Excavated materials were placed at the base of the sound berm towards the east after which the bones were found and hand excavation followed. [4]
It will act as an encouragement to the commercial and private fossil collecting business, because obviously, there's much more money to be made selling fossils than was made previously," Lucas said.
Oklahoma was a terrestrial environment for most of the ensuing Mesozoic era. [3] The Late Triassic Dockum Group of western Oklahoma preserved remains of archosaurs and temnospondyls, although its fossil record is restricted to a narrow region of the panhandle and is far sparser than the equivalent records in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. [98]
The 150-million-year-old fossil known as "Apex" will be displayed at the American Museum of Natural History starting December 8.
The Meadowcroft Rockshelter is an archaeological site which is located near Avella in Jefferson Township, Pennsylvania. [4] The site is a rock shelter in a bluff overlooking Cross Creek (a tributary of the Ohio River), and contains evidence that the area may have been continually inhabited for more than 19,000 years.
The Ellisdale Fossil Site is located near Ellisdale in the valley of the Crosswicks Creek, in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States.The site has produced the largest and most diverse fauna of Late Cretaceous terrestrial animals from eastern North America, including the type specimens of the teiid lizard Prototeius stageri [1] and the batrachosauroidid salamander Parrisia neocesariensis. [2]