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Amiatus calvus (Linnaeus 1766) The bowfin (Amia calva) is a bony fish, native to North America. Common names include mudfish, mud pike, dogfish, grindle, grinnel, swamp trout, and choupique. It is regarded as a relict, being one of only two surviving species of the Halecomorphi, a group of fish that first appeared during the Early Triassic ...
Paleontology in West Virginia. Paleontology in West Virginia refers to paleontological research occurring within or conducted by people from the U.S. state of West Virginia. West Virginia's fossil record begins in the Cambrian. From that time through the rest of the early Paleozoic, the state was at least partially submerged under a shallow sea.
The Kenimer site is located on an erosional remnant hill just to the north of and overlooking the Nacoochee Valley. It overlooks the junction of the Chattahoochee River and Sautee Creek, which is about 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) to the southeast. Mound A, the largest of the site's two mounds is 150 feet (46 m) above the level of the flood plain ...
Gar. Gars are an ancient group of ray-finned fish in the family Lepisosteidae. They comprise seven living species of fish in two genera that inhabit fresh, brackish, and occasionally marine waters of eastern North America, Central America and Cuba in the Caribbean, [1][2] though extinct members of the family were more widespread. They are the ...
The U.S. state of Georgia is commonly divided into four geologic regions that influence the location of the state's four traditional physiographic regions. [1][2] The four geologic regions include the Appalachian foreland, Blue Ridge, Piedmont, and Coastal Plain. These four geologic regions commonly share names with and typically overlap the ...
The location of the state of New Mexico. Paleontology in New Mexico refers to paleontological research occurring within or conducted by people from the U.S. state of New Mexico. The fossil record of New Mexico is exceptionally complete and spans almost the entire stratigraphic column. [1] More than 3,300 different kinds of fossil organisms have ...
River shiner (Notropis blennius) O. Bigeye shiner (Notropis boops) O, rare. Ghost shiner (Notropis buchanani) O. Bigmouth shiner (Notropis dorsalis) O, extinct in West Virginia. Spottail shiner (Notropis hudsonius) O,N,P. Sand shiner (Notropis stramineus) O,N. Silver shiner (Notropis photogenis) O,N.
Selected Paleozoic taxa of West Virginia. Fossilized fronds of the Carboniferous-Early Cretaceous seed fern Alethopteris. † Alethopteris. † Alethopteris decurrens. † Alethopteris gigas. † Alethopteris grandini. † Alethopteris parva. † Alethopteris serlii. † Alethopteris sternberg.