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Fossils are common in North Carolina. According to author Rufus Johnson, "almost every major river and creek east of Interstate 95 has exposures where fossils can be found". [1] The fossil record of North Carolina spans from Eocambrian remains that are 600 million years old, to the Pleistocene 10,000 years ago. About 600 million years ago ...
This list of fossil sites is a worldwide list of localities known well for the presence of ... North Carolina: Purgatoire River track site: Late Jurassic: North ...
This article contains a list of fossil-bearing stratigraphic units in the state of North Carolina, U.S. Sites. Group or Formation ... By using this site, ...
This list of the prehistoric life of North Carolina contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of North Carolina. Precambrian-Paleozoic
Acesta † Achrostichites – or unidentified comparable form † Achrostichites linnaeafolius Acirsa † Acutostrea † Acutostrea plumosa † Adocus Illustration of the reconstructed skeleton of the Late Triassic Aetosaurus. Othniel Charles Marsh (1895). † Aetosaurus † Aldebarania – type locality for genus † Aldebarania arenitea – type locality for species † Alinka – type ...
The Aurora Fossil Museum is a natural science museum in Aurora, North Carolina.The museum's collection is built around fossils recovered from the nearby phosphate mine owned since 1995 by PotashCorp, but also includes fossil specimens donated from around the world as well as geology and meteorite displays.
The Albemarle Group is a geologic group in North Carolina composed of metamorphosed mafic and felsic volcanic rock, sandstone, siltstone, shale, and mudstone. [1] It is considered part of the Carolina Slate Belt and covers several counties in central North Carolina. It preserves fossils dating back to the Ediacaran period in the Floyd Church ...
The Hardaway Site, designated by the Smithsonian trinomial 31ST4, is an archaeological site near Badin, North Carolina. A National Historic Landmark, this multi-layered site has seen major periods of occupation as far back as 10,000 years. Materials from this site were and are used to assist in dating materials from other sites in the eastern ...