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The Gray Fossil Site is an Early Pliocene assemblage of fossils dating between 4.5 and 4.9 million years old, located near the community of Gray in Washington County, Tennessee. The site was discovered during road construction on Tennessee State Route 75 by the Tennessee Department of Transportation in May 2000, [1] after which local officials ...
Paleontology in Tennessee refers to paleontological research occurring within or conducted by people from the U.S. state of Tennessee. During the early part of the Paleozoic era, Tennessee was covered by a warm, shallow sea. This sea was home to brachiopods, bryozoans, cephalopods, corals, and trilobites. Tennessee is one of the best sources of ...
The following list of archaeological sites in Tennessee encompasses sites that have either contributed substantially or have the potential to contribute substantially to research regarding people who have lived in what is now Tennessee. Note that a historical site is not necessarily an archaeological site. According to the Tennessee Division of ...
List of the Paleozoic life of Tennessee. 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.
Coon Creek Science Center. The Coon Creek Science Center is a science center and fossil finding site at 2985 Hardin Graveyard Road in Adamsville, McNairy County, Tennessee, US. The science center is situated on a 232 acres (94 ha) property on one of the most important fossil sites in North America. [ 1] The Coon Creek Formation is a geologic ...
Coon Creek (Mississippi) Named by. B. Wade. The Coon Creek Formation or Coon Creek Tongue is a geologic unit and Konservat-Lagerstätte located in western Tennessee and extreme northeast Mississippi. [1] It is a sedimentary sandy marl deposit, Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) in age, about 70 million years old.
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]
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 ...