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The bones were the disarticulated remains of bears, deer, mice, and a kind of eastern wood rat not currently found in the area of the fossil discovery. [17] More recently, in 1989, the Pennsylvanian sea lily, Delocrinus missouriensis, was designated the Missouri state fossil. In 2004, Hypsibema missouriensis was designated the state dinosaur ...
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.
This article contains a list of fossil-bearing stratigraphic units in the state of Missouri, U.S. Sites. Group or Formation
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
Specimens have been found in Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, Oklahoma, Arizona, Iowa, Texas, Utah and Virginia. Eperisocrinus missouriensis , formerly Delocrinus missouriensis , was made the state fossil of Missouri in 1989.
Torbay Council said the fossils of trees, known as lycopsids and believed to be about 377 million years old, were found by Dr Kevin Page during a survey of Saltern Cove, near Paignton, which is ...
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 ...
The Gordon Tract is a late Woodland period archeological site located on the floodplain and bluffs of Hinkson Creek near Columbia, Missouri, United States, which contains the remains of a prehistoric village and mounds.