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In 2002, the National Park Service designated Big Bone Lick State Park as an official Lewis and Clark Heritage Trail Site. [42] The park was listed as a National Natural Landmark in February 2009. It bills itself as "the birthplace of American paleontology". [43] The park was further given National Historic Landmark designation in 2024. [44]
Fossil tree trunks and other plant fossils are often found in the rocks above coal beds. [4] The ancient swamps of Pennsylvanian Kentucky left behind many fossils. [8] A fossil trackway preserved in McCreary County is among the oldest fossil evidence for the existence of reptiles. [4]
This list of the prehistoric life of Kentucky contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Kentucky. Precambrian [ edit ]
This article contains a list of fossil-bearing stratigraphic units in the state of Kentucky, U.S. Sites. Group or Formation
In 1995, a single five foot long embolomere amphibian fossil was found in sandstone, near the margin of the Western Kentucky Coal Field. In the Pennsylvanian, shallow seas existed periodically, but the landscape was mostly swampy land. As the supercontinent Pangaea took shape, Kentucky was situated on the equator. Grasses and cordaite trees ...
This list of the Paleozoic life of Kentucky contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Kentucky and are between 538.8 and 252.17 million years of age.
Fossil Prairie Park: Devonian: North America: US: Iowa: Mazon Creek: Francis Creek Shale: Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) North America: US: Illinois [Note 1] Ghost Ranch: Triassic: North America: US: New Mexico: Non-Avian Dinosaurs [Note 1] Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument: Glenns Ferry Formation: Pliocene/Pleistocene: North America: US: Idaho
Geological map of Mammoth Cave National Park, incl. St. Louis Limestone Outcrops of the St. Louis Limestone near Frenchburg, Kentucky. The St. Louis Limestone is a large geologic formation covering a wide area of the midwest of the United States. It is named after an exposure at St. Louis, Missouri.