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Fossil of the Silurian-Carboniferous crinoid ("sea lily") Periechocrinus †Periechocrinus †Phragmolites †Plaesiomys †Plagiostomoceras †Planolites †Platyceras †Platystrophia †Plectodonta †Pleurodictyum; Pleurotomaria †Polygrammoceras †Proetus †Sactorthoceras; Fossil of the Cambrian-Ordovician trilobite Saukiella ...
This list of the Paleozoic life of Wisconsin contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Wisconsin and are between 538.8 and 252.17 million years of age.
They were also the first fossil reefs in North America to be properly recognized as such. Hall set out to formally describe the fossils of the reef, and found them to be among the most diverse of the period on the entire continent. [5] Lapham died in 1875 and most of his fossils and mineral specimens were sold to the University of Wisconsin.
[1] [5] Most of the Waukesha Biota fossils were found at a quarry in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, owned and operated by the Waukesha Lime and Stone Company. Other fossils were collected from a quarry in Franklin, Milwaukee County, owned and operated by Franklin Aggregate Inc. That quarry lies 32 km (20 mi) south of the quarry in Waukesha.
State fossils are distinct from other state emblems like state dinosaurs, state stones, state minerals, state gemstones or state rocks and a state may designate one, a few, or all of those. For example, in Arizona , the state stone is turquoise and the state dinosaur is Sonorasaurus thompsoni yet the state fossil is petrified wood .
Blackberry Hill is a Konservat-Lagerstätte of Cambrian age located within the Elk Mound Group in Marathon County, Wisconsin. [1] It is found in a series of quarries and outcrops that are notable for their large concentration of exceptionally preserved trace fossils in Cambrian tidal flats.
A high school student made an incredible discovery in her own backyard: A 34-million-year-old whale skull. Sixteen-year-old Lindsey Stallworth and her biology teacher, Andrew Gentry, found small ...
This article contains a list of fossil-bearing stratigraphic units in the state of Wisconsin, U.S. Sites Group or Formation ...