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Florissant Fossil Beds: Florissant Formation: Eocene (Priabonian) North America: US: Colorado: Insects: 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 ...
Hazel (1971) revised the age of the Yorktown from Miocene to Late Miocene to Early Pliocene using ostracod biostratigraphy. [5] The age was revised by Gibson (1983) to extend into the Middle Pliocene based on foraminifera. [6]
The Coon Creek Science Center is a science center and fossil finding site at 2985 Hardin Graveyard Road in Adamsville, McNairy County, Tennessee, US. The science center is situated on a 232 acres (94 ha) property on one of the most important fossil sites in North America . [ 1 ]
The Stonerose Interpretive center & Eocene Fossil Site is a 501c(3) non-profit public museum and fossil dig located in Republic, Washington. The center was established in 1989 and houses fossils that have been featured in National Geographic Magazine , Sunset magazine , and numerous scientific works.
Dozens of mammoths were trapped in a South Dakota sinkhole over 100,000 years ago.. A bulldozer uncovered the first fossil 50 years ago, and experts have been finding bones ever since.
The site is best known for a large number of well-preserved Miocene fossils, many of which were found at dig sites on Carnegie and University Hills.Fossils from the Harrison Formation and Anderson Ranch Formation, which date to the Arikareean in the North American land mammal classification, about 20 to 16.3 million years ago, are among some of the best specimens of Miocene mammals.
Edelman Fossil Park. The Jean and Ric Edelman Fossil Park, located in Mantua Township, New Jersey, consists of a 66-million-year-old 6-inch (150 mm) bone bed set into a 65-acre (26 ha) former marl quarry. [1] It is currently the only facility east of the Mississippi River that has an active open quarry for public Community Dig Days. [2]
The Hadrosaurus foulkii Leidy Site is a historic paleontological site in Haddonfield, Camden County, New Jersey.Now set in state-owned parkland, it is where the first relatively complete set of dinosaur bones were discovered in 1838, and then fully excavated by William Parker Foulke in 1858.