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The museum provides information about the geological history of the Aurora area, which is known as a center for fossil hunting (especially due to the phosphate mine). [4] The museum was founded in 1976 and opened in 1978 as a collaboration between the town of Aurora, local mines, East Carolina University, and other interested parties. Visitors ...
A C. megalodon tooth excavated from Aurora. Aurora is the home of the Aurora Fossil Museum, which houses specimens collected from the local PCS Phosphate Mine. The museum's collection includes a wide variety of marine fossils from the Pleistocene, Pliocene and Miocene eras. It also houses other specimens and a gem and mineral display.
The only known fossils from this time period is the tube-shaped trace fossil Skolithos. However, a few trilobites are known from Cambrian deposits in South Carolina , [ 5 ] which are the same age as North Carolina's Cambrian deposits; thus it is likely that trilobites lived in North Carolina as well.
Aurora Fossil Museum: Aurora: Beaufort: Inner Banks: Natural history: Area fossils, shark jaws, archaeological artifacts including projectile points, stone tools, jewelry and cooking implements of Native Americans from Eastern North Carolina Ava Gardner Museum: Smithfield: Johnston: Inner Banks: Biographical: Life of actress Ava Gardner
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The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, America's first natural history museum There are natural history museums in all 50 of the United States and the District of Columbia . The oldest such museum, the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , was founded in 1812.
The Field Museum has added a new fossil to its collection, calling it the museum’s most important fossil acquisition since Sue the T. rex. An Archaeopteryx, it has feathers, hollow bones, a long ...
Fossils on display at the Florida Museum include those estimated to be 500 million years old discovered in the Burgess Shale in British Columbia. Florida Museum of Natural History's latest exhibit ...