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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]
This article contains a list of fossil-bearing stratigraphic units in the state of Oklahoma, U.S. Sites. Group or Formation
This list of the Paleozoic life of Oklahoma contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Oklahoma and are between 541 and 252.17 million years of age.
Fossil of the Carboniferous horsetail relative Annularia †Annularia †Annularia sphenophylloides †Annularia stellata †Anomphalus †Anthracoceras †Aphlebia †Archaeocidaris; Archaeolithophyllum †Archeria †Archimedes †Archimedes distans †Archimedes meekanoides †Archimedes meekanus – or unidentified comparable form †Arkanites
Richards Spur is a Permian fossil locality located at the Dolese Brothers Limestone Quarry north of Lawton, Oklahoma. The locality preserves clay and mudstone fissure fills of a karst system eroded out of Ordovician limestone and dolomite , with the infilling dating to the Artinskian stage of the early Permian ( Cisuralian ), around 289 to 286 ...
The fossils include unique species of fish that had never been found in the area before. The discovery is reshaping views on California geology with the possibility of extinct islands.
The fossil itself has a somewhat less poetic name: NDGS 10838. It includes a near-complete skull with a bony ridge over the eyes as well as jaws and some skeletal parts, including 11 ribs and 12 ...
The Callixylon tree was discovered by John Fitts in 1913 at a farm near Goose Creek, south of Jesse, Oklahoma, in section 26, T. 1 N., R. 7 E. The fossil was found near the Giant Fitts Oilfield. The petrified stump was the largest of its species to ever be discovered.