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Oklahoma was a terrestrial environment for most of the ensuing Mesozoic era. [3] The Late Triassic Dockum Group of western Oklahoma preserved remains of archosaurs and temnospondyls, although its fossil record is restricted to a narrow region of the panhandle and is far sparser than the equivalent records in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. [98]
Life restoration of the Early Cretaceous theropod dinosaur Acrocanthosaurus †Acrocanthosaurus – type locality for genus †Acrocanthosaurus atokensis – type locality for species †Albanerpeton †Albanerpeton arthridion †Allosaurus – type locality for genus †Allosaurus fragilis – type locality for species; Ammobaculites
Dinosaur Valley State Park [Note 2] Glen Rose Formation: Cretaceous (Aptian-Albian) North America: US: Texas: Dinosaur footprints Gray Fossil Site: Miocene: North America: US: Tennessee: Mammals Fossil Butte National Monument [Note 3] Green River Formation: Eocene: North America: US: Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming: Fishes [Note 1] Schreiber ...
The workers were employed to strategically uncover and excavate dinosaur fossils across the state of Oklahoma. Discovering a number of large, unique specimens of dinosaurs and mammals, the museum’s vertebrate fossil collection quickly grew in prominence, while also demanding additional storage space.
The earliest-known dinosaur fossils date to roughly 230 million years ago, including Eoraptor and Herrerasaurus from Argentina, Saturnalia from southern Brazil and Mbiresaurus from Zimbabwe.
The McLemore Site is located on a terrace overlooking Cobb Creek outside the town of Colony in central western Oklahoma. The first major archaeological investigation took place in 1960 under the auspices of Dr. Robert E. Bell of Oklahoma State University. Three sections of the site were excavated: an area of cache and refuse pits, an area once ...
Call it shovel and pail-eontology. Three North Dakota boys made the extraordinary discovery of a highly rare Tyrannosaurus rex fossil that could change what we know about dinosaurs.
This article contains a list of fossil-bearing stratigraphic units in the state of Oklahoma, U.S. Sites. Group or Formation