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An example of a multicomponent site would be American Civil War earthworks constructed at the same location as a prehistoric Mississippian village. The cultural affiliation category in the list below refers only to periods in which the most significant occupation or event (e.g., a battle) took place at the site.
The Mississippian carbonates of Tennessee are very rich in fossils. [3] In the Mississippian Tennessee was home to large fish, abundant conodonts, and plants. [2] Swampy conditions prevailed in Tennessee during the later part of the Mississippian epoch. [8] During the Pennsylvanian epoch Tennessee was home to vast river systems flowing toward ...
This list of fossil sites is a worldwide list of localities known well for the presence of fossils. Some entries in this list are notable for a single, unique find, while others are notable for the large number of fossils found there.
Index fossils are species of plants or animals that existed over a wide area for a geologically short period of time . [3] The cephalopod Jeletzkytes nodosus is a time-sensitive fossil found in rocks a little younger than 70.6 million years old in the western United States. Other index fossils from Coon Creek date a little older than 70.6 ...
This list of the Paleozoic life of Tennessee contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Tennessee and are between 538.8 and 252.17 million years of age.
Fossil of the Middle-Late Ordovician giant trilobite Isotelus. †Isotelus †Kockelella †Krausella †Lingulella †Lonchodomas †Marsupiocrinus †Meristella †Meristina †Monomorphichnus †Orthoceras †Ozarkodina †Ozarkodina confluens †Paciphacops; Fossilized theca of the Carboniferous blastoid echinoderm ("sea bud") Pentremites ...
The Coats–Hines–Litchy site (formerly Coats–Hines) is a paleontological site located in Williamson County, Tennessee, in the Southeastern United States.The site was formerly believed to be archaeological, and identified as one of only a very few locations in Eastern North America containing evidence of Paleoindian hunting of late Pleistocene proboscideans. [1]
The Chattanooga Shale is a member of the Devonian Shale-Middle and Upper Paleozoic Total Petroleum System (TPS) stretching from New York to Tennessee that comprises six large petroleum systems. Such systems span Cambrian to Pennsylvanian intervals, and the Chattanooga Shale feeds much of the Appalachian Basin's oil and gas.