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Hypsibema missouriensis (/ ˌ h ɪ p s ɪ ˈ b iː m ə m ɪ ˌ z ʊər i ˈ ɛ n s ɪ s /; [1] originally Neosaurus missouriensis, first renamed to Parrosaurus missouriensis, [1] [2] also spelled Hypsibema missouriense [3]) is a species of plant-eating dinosaur in the genus Hypsibema, and the state dinosaur of the U.S. state Missouri.
The bones were the disarticulated remains of bears, deer, mice, and a kind of eastern wood rat not currently found in the area of the fossil discovery. [17] More recently, in 1989, the Pennsylvanian sea lily, Delocrinus missouriensis, was designated the Missouri state fossil. In 2004, Hypsibema missouriensis was designated the state dinosaur ...
One paleontologist from St. Louis currently working at the dig site said it was "pretty much a miracle" that dinosaur bones were found in Missouri, because the state's soft soil has resulted in the deterioration of most prehistoric remains. [16] [3] However, some of the remains found have been damaged by erosion and other processes. [11]
This list of the Paleozoic life of Missouri contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Missouri and are between 538.8 and 252.17 million years of age. There is no Permian age rocks on the surface in Missouri, so beware of any fossils identified as such in the state.
Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna, which was thought to be extinct, has stunned scientists after being filmed in a tropical forest in Indonesia for the first time.. The egg-laying mammal, named ...
Fossil of the Middle-Late Ordovician giant trilobite Isotelus. †Isotelus †Isotelus gigas †Isotelus maximus †Jeffersonia †Kendallina †Kirengella †Kirkella – type locality for genus †Lepidophyllum †Lingula †Liroceras †Matthevia †Maximites †Meristella †Meristina †Metacoceras †Murchisonia – tentative report
This article contains a list of fossil-bearing stratigraphic units in the state of Missouri, U.S. Sites. Group or Formation ... Kansas City Group/Cherryville Shale:
In 2014, physician Pedro Lucas Porcela Aurelio found the fossil in the town of Paraiso do Sul in Brazil's southernmost Rio Grande do Sul state. He donated it to a local university in 2021, kicking ...