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  2. Paleontology in Texas - Wikipedia

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    Paleontology in Texas. Paleontology in Texas refers to paleontological research occurring within or conducted by people from the U.S. state of Texas. Author Marian Murray has said that "Texas is as big for fossils as it is for everything else." [1] Some of the most important fossil finds in United States history have come from Texas.

  3. Claiborne Formation - Wikipedia

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    Claiborne Formation. Cladrastis-like sp. (Claiborne Formation, Eocene; w. Tennessee) The Claiborne Formation or Claiborne Group is a geologic formation in Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, and Texas. It preserves fossils dating back to the Paleogene period .

  4. Glen Rose Formation - Wikipedia

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    The Glen Rose Formation is a shallow marine to shoreline geological formation from the lower Cretaceous period exposed over a large area from South Central to North Central Texas. The formation is most widely known for the dinosaur footprints and trackways found in the Dinosaur Valley State Park near the town of Glen Rose, Texas, southwest of ...

  5. Big Bone Lick State Park - Wikipedia

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    The Big Bone Lick Historical Association was formed in 1953, and in 1956 purchased 16.66 acres of land, which they deeded to the Kentucky State Commissioner for conservation. In December 1960, the Kentucky Department of Parks began constructing picnic areas, a shelter, and a parking lot. By 1962, the purchase of additional land brought the size ...

  6. Paleontology in Kentucky - Wikipedia

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    Paleontology in Kentucky refers to paleontological research occurring within or conducted by people from the U.S. state of Kentucky. Kentucky's abundance of exposed sedimentary rock makes it an ideal source of fossils. The geologic column of Kentucky contains rocks deposited during the Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Mississippian and ...

  7. Geology of Kentucky - Wikipedia

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    The geology of Kentucky formed beginning more than one billion years ago, in the Proterozoic eon of the Precambrian. The oldest igneous and metamorphic crystalline basement rock is part of the Grenville Province, a small continent that collided with the early North American continent. The beginning of the Paleozoic is poorly attested and the ...

  8. List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Texas - Wikipedia

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    Paleogene. Canyon Group / Caddo Creek Formation. Carboniferous. Canyon Group / Graford Formation. Carboniferous. Canyon Group / Palo Pinto Formation. Carboniferous. Canyon Group / Winchell Formation. Carboniferous.

  9. List of the prehistoric life of Kentucky - Wikipedia

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    Restoration showing the top (left) and underside of the Late Ordovician trilobite Triarthrus. † Triarthrus. † Triarthrus eatoni. † Triendoceras – tentative report. † Trocholites. † Ulrichicrinus. † Whiteavesia. † Worthenia. † Zadelsdorfia – tentative report.