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Many significant fossils curated by museums in Europe and the United States were found in Ohio. [1] Major local fossil discoveries include the 1965 discovery of more than 50,000 Devonian fish fossils in Cuyahoga County. The Ordovician trilobite Isotelus maximus is the Ohio state invertebrate fossil.
This list of the Paleozoic life of Ohio contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Ohio and are between 538.8 and 252.17 million years of age.
The Paleo Crossing site, one of the oldest sites in Ohio, had two [5] or three [6] post holes and refuse pits that contained charcoal. From radiocarbon dating, the site was used 10,980 BP ± 75 yearsBefore Present [ 5 ] or about 9,000 B.C. [ 6 ] The post holes and an area about 150 square feet indicate that there was a structure at the site.
The oldest-known frog fossils date to even earlier ... are preserved as dark imprints in their anatomical position in the fossil. The fossil was found in 2020 during a dig for dinosaur remains on ...
Clovis artifacts dated to 13,000 years ago were found at the Paleo Crossing site in Medina County provides evidence of Paleo-Indians in northern Ohio and may be the area's oldest residents and archaeologist Dr. David Brose believes that they may be "some of the oldest certain examples of human activity in the New World."
The fossil was first uncovered in 1984 by the late Nicholas Hotton III, a museum paleontologist who had excavated fossils from the Red Beds in Texas, an area known to be rich in Permian-age remains.
After 1.5 million years ago (extinction of Paranthropus), all fossils shown are human (genus Homo). After 11,500 years ago (11.5 ka, beginning of the Holocene), all fossils shown are Homo sapiens (anatomically modern humans), illustrating recent divergence in the formation of modern human sub-populations.
The world’s oldest known fossilized skin belonged to a species of reptile that lived before dinosaurs roamed the Earth, a new study has found. Rare skin fossil is oldest by 130 million years ...