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The center opened in July 2011 and is in Orange County, California. [1] The Cooper Center was named to commemorate Dr. John D. Cooper, professor emeritus of geological science at Cal State Fullerton, who campaigned for the conservation of the Orange County Collection, and died in 2007. [2] [3]
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 ...
Fossilized skeleton of the Eocene-Pliocene frog Eopelobates †Eopelobates †Eosurcula †Epicyon †Epicyon haydeni †Epihippus; Epinephelus †Epiphragmophora; Epitonium; Eptesicus †Eptesicus fuscus – or unidentified comparable form †Equisetum; Equus †Equus idahoensi; Restoration of the Pliocene-Holocene horse Equus scotti, or Scott ...
The fossils include unique species of fish that had never been found in the area before. The discovery is reshaping views on California geology with the possibility of extinct islands.
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.
Although the fossils match the western black-headed snake, which also occurs in California today, the material is not assigned to any particular species due to the often restricted range of centipede snakes and the fact that members of the genus are poorly understood. Coast horned lizard [136] [135] [137] [138] Phrynosoma coronatum
Palaeobatrachus was the first fossil frog to be described, [1] with the first species being P. diluvianus named by Goldfuss in 1831, originally as Rana diluviana from remains found in uppermost Oligocene strata near Bonn in Germany. It was later recognised as distinct and placed in the new separate genus Palaeobatrachus by Tschudi in 1839. [3]
The oldest-known frog fossils date to even earlier. ... The researchers said the fossil, measuring 16 centimeters (6.3 inches) long, sheds light on the evolution of frogs and toads, showing that ...