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The human bones excavated by Sellards were passed around various institutions for study. By the time carbon-14 dating of fossils became possible, about 35 years after the discovery of Vero Man, some of the bones had been lost, and others had been rendered unusable for such testing due to the way they had been preserved with chemicals.
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.
The site is apparently geologically unique in the Hawaiian Islands, comprising a sinkhole paleolake in a cave formed in eolianite limestone. The paleolake contains nearly 10,000 years of sedimentary record; since the discovery of Makauwahi as a fossil site, excavations have found pollen, seeds, diatoms, invertebrate shells, and Polynesian artifacts, as well as thousands of bird and fish bones.
The first fossil to be found in the area, Fractofusus misrai, was discovered in June 1967 by Shiva Balak Misra, an Indian graduate student studying geology at Memorial University of Newfoundland. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In the mid-1980s, the site quickly became recognized as an important location containing possibly the oldest metazoan fossils in North ...
The first fossil find was a right clavicle, MH1 (UW88-1), in Malapa Cave, Cradle of Humankind, South Africa, discovered by 9-year-old Matthew Berger on 15 August 2008 while exploring the digsite headed by his father, South African palaeoanthropologist Lee Rogers Berger.
The Ellisdale Fossil Site is located near Ellisdale in the valley of the Crosswicks Creek, in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States.The site has produced the largest and most diverse fauna of Late Cretaceous terrestrial animals from eastern North America, including the type specimens of the teiid lizard Prototeius stageri [1] and the batrachosauroidid salamander Parrisia neocesariensis. [2]
The site was discovered in Spring 1942 by the Chronister family, possibly by Lulu Chronister, while they were digging a cistern within the site, which is located in Glen Allen, and the first fossils identified from the site were subsequently collected by Dan R. Stewart, [2] [3] later nicknamed "Dinosaur Dan."
Outcrops of the Narrow Cape Formation at Fossil Beach, Kodiak Island, Alaska. The Narrow Cape Formation is a geologic formation in the Kodiak Archipelago, in Alaska. The formation outcrops along Narrow Cape and nearby Ugak Island. It preserves fossils dating back to the Neogene period. Invertebrate fossils are abundant, along with rare ...