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  2. Paleontology in Ohio - Wikipedia

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    The location of the state of Ohio. Paleontology in Ohio refers to paleontological research occurring within or conducted by people from the U.S. state of Ohio. Ohio is well known for having a great quantity and diversity of fossils preserved in its rocks. The state's fossil record begins early in the Paleozoic era, during the Cambrian period.

  3. List of U.S. state fossils - Wikipedia

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    Florida: There is no state fossil in Florida, though agatised coral, which is a fossil, is the state stone. Hawaii. Iowa: The crinoid was proposed in 2018. [2] Minnesota: The giant beaver was proposed in 2022. [3] New Hampshire: The American mastodon (Mammut americanum) was considered in 2015.

  4. List of the prehistoric life of Ohio - Wikipedia

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    Fossil of the Middle-Late Ordovician giant trilobite Isotelus. Life restoration of the Carboniferous-Permian amphibian Phlegethontia. Life restoration with a conifer-like body plan of the Silurian-Late Devonian tree-like probable fungus Prototaxites. John William Dawson (1888).

  5. Paleontology in Oregon - Wikipedia

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    A Metasequoia occidentalis fossil, from the same species as Oregon's official state fossil. Paleontology in Oregon refers to paleontological research occurring within or conducted by people from the U.S. state of Oregon. Oregon's geologic record extends back approximately 400 million years ago to the Devonian period, before which time the state ...

  6. List of U.S. state dinosaurs - Wikipedia

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    List of U.S. state dinosaurs. This is a list of U.S. state dinosaurs in the United States, including the District of Columbia. Many states also have dinosaurs as state fossils, or designate named avian dinosaurs (List of U.S. state birds), but this list only includes those that have been officially designated as "state dinosaurs".

  7. John Day Fossil Beds National Monument - Wikipedia

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    John Day Fossil Beds National Monument is a U.S. national monument in Wheeler and Grant counties in east-central Oregon.Located within the John Day River basin and managed by the National Park Service, the park is known for its well-preserved layers of fossil plants and mammals that lived in the region between the late Eocene, about 45 million years ago, and the late Miocene, about 5 million ...

  8. Castoroides - Wikipedia

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    Castoroides (Latin: "beaver" (castor), "like" (oides) [2]), or the giant beaver, is an extinct genus of enormous, bear-sized beavers that lived in North America during the Pleistocene. Two species are currently recognized, C. dilophidus in the Southeastern United States and C. ohioensis in most of North America.

  9. List of the Paleozoic life of Ohio - Wikipedia

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    This list of the Paleozoic life of Ohio contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Ohio and are between 538.8 and 252.17 million years of age.