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Diagram depicting the soft part anatomy of the sea snail Abyssochrysos † Abyssochrysos – tentative report † Abyssochrysos giganteum – type locality for species † Acaeniotyle † Acaeniotyle umbilicata – or unidentified related form † Acanthoceras † Acanthoceras rhotomagense – or unidentified related form † Acanthoceras roguense – or unidentified related form ...
Dinosaurs and Other Mesozoic Reptiles of California. Berkeley: University of California Press. 318 pp. ISBN 9780520233157. Mayor, Adrienne. Fossil Legends of the First Americans. Princeton University Press. 2005. ISBN 0-691-11345-9. Murray, Marian (1974). Hunting for Fossils: A Guide to Finding and Collecting Fossils in All 50 States. Collier ...
Older fossils lay even deeper beneath the bone bed. These 8.9-million-year-old rocks included fossilized bones of fish and marine mammals. Experts also found teeth from juvenile megalodons and ...
Fossils of the mysterious Ediacaran organism Aspidella †Aspidella – tentative report †Aspidella terranovica †Atrypa †Atrypa reticularis †Aviculopecten †Aviculopecten occidentalis – or unidentified comparable form †Bimuria †Bolbolenellus †Bristolia †Bumastus †Calymene †Camarotoechia – tentative report †Carolinites ...
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.
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The Vaqueros Formation is a sedimentary geologic unit primarily of Upper Oligocene and Lower Miocene age, which is widespread on the California coast and coastal ranges in approximately the southern half of the state. It is predominantly a medium-grained sandstone unit, deposited in a shallow marine environment.
The oldest rocks in California date back 1.8 billion years to the Proterozoic and are found in the San Gabriel Mountains, San Bernardino Mountains, and Mojave Desert.The rocks of eastern California formed a shallow continental shelf, with massive deposition of limestone during the Paleozoic, and sediments from this time are common in the Sierra Nevada, Klamath Mountains and eastern Transverse ...