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The Marble Mountains Fossil Beds are the site of 550-million-year-old fossils of trilobites, which were among the first animals on earth with eyes and skeletons. In all, roughly 21 species of Cambrian invertebrates have been discovered in the area. [ 4 ]
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 ...
The Dr. John D. Cooper Archaeological and Paleontological Center, or Cooper Center, was established by OC Parks and California State University, Fullerton in order to conserve, archive and manage the Orange County Archaeology and Paleontology Collections, including six million fossils.
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 ...
The Cerutti Mastodon site is a paleontological and possible archeological site in San Diego County, California. In 2017, broken mastodon bones at the site were dated to around 130,700 years ago. The bones were found with cobblestones displaying use-wear and impact marks among the otherwise fine-grain sands.
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 ...
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The Capistrano Formation, named for the town of San Juan Capistrano, is located in southern California, specifically the northern extent of the Peninsular Ranges, which stretch from the Los Angeles Basin to Baja California. [2] It crops out along the coast from Dana Point to San Clemente, and inland for seven miles. [1]