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The location of the state of Arizona. Paleontology in Arizona refers to paleontological research occurring within or conducted by people from the U.S. state of Arizona. The fossil record of Arizona dates to the Precambrian. During the Precambrian, Arizona was home to a shallow sea which was home to jellyfish and stromatolite -forming bacteria.
Fossils of the Carboniferous-Permian bryozoan Archimedes †Archimedes †Archimedes intermedius †Archimedes invaginatus †Archimedes lativolvis †Archimedes proutanus †Archimedes terebriformis †Arizonerpeton – type locality for genus †Athyris †Aulopora †Aviculopecten †Aviculopecten bellatulus – type locality for species
List of the Paleozoic life of Arizona. This list of the Paleozoic life of Arizona contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Arizona and are between 538.8 and 252.17 million years of age.
The Bright Angel Shale consists of locally fossiliferous, green and red-brown, micaceous, fissile shale (mudstone) and siltstone with local, thicker beds of brown to tan sandstone and limestone. It ranges in thickness from 57 to 450 ft (17 to 137 m). Typically, its thin-bedded shales and sandstones are interbedded in cm-scale cycles.
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.
Araucarioxylon arizonicum (alternatively Agathoxylon arizonicum) is an extinct species of conifer that is the state fossil of Arizona. [1] The species is known from massive tree trunks that weather out of the Chinle Formation in desert badlands of northern Arizona and adjacent New Mexico, most notably in the 378.51 square kilometres (93,530 acres) Petrified Forest National Park. [2]
Sonorasaurus. Sonorasaurus is a genus of brachiosaurid dinosaur from the Early to Late Cretaceous (Albian to Cenomanian stages, around 112 to 93 million years ago). It was a herbivorous sauropod whose fossils have been found in southern Arizona in the United States. Its name, which means "Sonora lizard", comes from the Sonora River that flows ...
Paleobiota of the Chinle Formation. The Chinle Formation is an extensive geological unit in the southwestern United States, preserving a very diverse fauna of Late Triassic (primarily Norian -age) animals and plants. This is a list of fossilized organisms recovered from the formation.