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These are the only known carnivorous megafauna that have been found in the Saltville Valley. [4] AMS radiocarbon dates were taken from a sample of preserved collagen and produced a date of 14,853 + 55 RCYBP for the fossil. [4] This is the only specimen of giant short faced bear found in the Appalachian Highlands. [4]
The American lion (Panthera atrox (/ ˈ p æ n θ ər ə ˈ æ t r ɒ k s /), with the species name meaning "savage" or "cruel", also called the North American lion) is an extinct pantherine cat native to North America during the Late Pleistocene from around 130,000 to 12,800 years ago.
This list of the prehistoric life of Virginia contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Virginia. Precambrian [ edit ]
This list of the Paleozoic life of Virginia contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Virginia and are between 538.8 and 252.17 million years of age.
No Precambrian fossils are known from Virginia. [1] The geologic column in Virginia begins at the Cambrian and spans to the Quaternary. [2] Although present, the state's Cambrian rocks preserve very few fossils and no documented individual deposit has proven a fertile collecting ground. [3] The state was covered by a warm shallow sea at the ...
As crews made way for the construction of a new sports center on Colonial Williamsburg Foundation property, archaeologists first took to the area to see if 18th century maps and period documents ...
This article contains a list of fossil-bearing stratigraphic units in the state of Virginia, U.S. Sites. Group or Formation Period
Fossil displays at the Virginia Museum of Natural History. In the foreground is a large Thrombolite-stromatolite (1.9 m diameter). In the background, the skeleton of a theropod dinosaur. Closeup of the enormous fossil Thrombolite-stromatolite above, found in a quarry in Bedford, Virginia in 2008.