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Later in the 1930s, a Materials Inspector working for the Iowa Highway Commission named John Holdefer noticed a fossil bone on a conveyor in a Plymouth County gravel pit, not far from Akron. He took the four inch long, partially weathered specimen home where it was kept on a shelf and sometimes used as a doorstop.
Reijenga & Close (2025) study the fossil record of Phanerozoic marine animals, and argue that purported evidence of a relationship between the duration of studied clades and their rates of origination and extinction can be explained by incomplete fossil sampling. [40] Maletz et al. (2025) revise Paleozoic fossils with similarities to feathers ...
This list of the Paleozoic life of Iowa contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Iowa and are between 538.8 and 252.17 million years of age.
Earlier this month, a man in Mississippi found a mammoth tusk, a rarity for the state. And in May, a Florida man discovered a 4-foot mastodon tusk at the bottom of the ocean while searching for ...
In June, a fossil diver found a large section of tusk from a long-extinct mastodon off the Gulf Coast of Florida. Archaeologists at an Iowa creek bed where a 13,600 mastodon skull was found ...
This article contains a list of fossil-bearing stratigraphic units in the state of Iowa, U.S. Sites. Group or Formation ... North Hill Group/English River: Devonian ...
A new study led by scientists at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), after analyzing pristine fossil samples from the Burgess Shale in British Columbia, concluded that O. alata was likely one of the ...
Fossil of the Cambrian-Middle Devonian trilobite Cheirurus †Cheirurus †Chomatodus †Chomatodus inconstans †Chonetes †Chonetes glenparkensis †Chonetes illinoisensis †Chonetes logani †Chonetes multicosta †Chonetes ornatus †Cleiothyridina †Cleiothyridina incrassata – or unidentified comparable form †Cleiothyridina sublamellosa