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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]
The list of fossils begins with Graecopithecus, dated some 7.2 million years ago, which may or may not still be ancestral to both the human and the chimpanzee lineage. For the earlier history of the human lineage, see Timeline of human evolution#Hominidae , Hominidae#Phylogeny .
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 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.
The oldest remnants of the so-called Fosna culture were found in Aukra in Møre og Romsdal. [73] Americas, South America: Argentina: 11,000 BP: Piedra Museo: Spear heads and human fossils [74] Europe, Baltic: Estonia: 11,000 BP: Pulli: The Pulli settlement on the bank of the Pärnu River briefly pre-dates that at Kunda, which gave its name to ...
Stone tools found at the Shangchen site in China and dated to 2.12 million years ago are considered the earliest known evidence of hominins outside Africa, surpassing Dmanisi hominins found in Georgia by 300,000 years, although whether these hominins were an early species in the genus Homo or another hominin species is unknown.
In 1999, two fishermen in Kentucky found human remains wrapped in heavy tire chains and anchored with a hydraulic jack in a lake. With the aid of advanced DNA technology, state police on Monday ...
Fossil hominid evolution display at The Museum of Osteology, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, US. During the 1960s and 1970s, hundreds of fossils were found in East Africa in the regions of the Olduvai Gorge and Lake Turkana.