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The Gray Fossil Site is an Early Pliocene assemblage of fossils dating between 4.5 and 4.9 million years old, located near the community of Gray in Washington County, Tennessee. The site was discovered during road construction on Tennessee State Route 75 by the Tennessee Department of Transportation in May 2000, [1] after which local officials ...
The location of the state of Tennessee. Paleontology in Tennessee refers to paleontological research occurring within or conducted by people from the U.S. state of Tennessee. During the early part of the Paleozoic era, Tennessee was covered by a warm, shallow sea. This sea was home to brachiopods, bryozoans, cephalopods, corals, and trilobites.
List of the Paleozoic life of Tennessee. This list of the Paleozoic life of Tennessee contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Tennessee and are between 538.8 and 252.17 million years of age.
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Tapirus polkensis, the pygmy tapir, is a small prehistoric tapir that lived in North America during the late Miocene and early Pliocene. [ 1] T. polkensis had an estimated mass of around 125 kg (276 lb), [ 1] making it smaller than any extant tapir. The Gray Fossil Site in northeast Tennessee is home to the world's largest known fossil ...
The black bars indicate stratigraphic ranges of genera and species based on first and last appearance dates. Overlap in ranges of taxa, between 4.9 and 4.5 Ma, is highlighted with a gray bar. This method of relative dating narrows down the estimated age of the Gray Fossil Site. Image from Samuels et al. 2018.
Coon Creek Science Center. 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 Coon Creek Formation is a geologic ...
The impact crater was formed approximately 360 million years ago as a shallow, saucer-shaped crater, 3.8 kilometres (2.4 mi) in diameter and about 150 metres (490 ft) deep. A large central hill, highly deformed rim strata, and a breccia lens 40 m (130 ft) in thickness were produced during formation. Over 2 square kilometres (490 acres) of flat ...