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The monstrous predator — which measured as long as a great white shark — belongs to a brand new species, according to a Dec. 12 University of Cincinnati news release.
This list of the prehistoric life of Ohio contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Ohio.
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 ...
Megalodon sharks were “the size and weight of a railroad car” and reigned over the world’s oceans “roughly 23 to 3.6 million years ago,” according to the National Museum of Natural History.
Paleo Crossing site, also known as the Old Dague Farm site, [2] is an archaeological site near Sharon Center, Ohio in Medina County where Clovis artifacts dated to 10,980 BP ± 75 years Before Present were found. [3] The Cleveland Museum of Natural History conducted an excavation from 1990 to 1993. [4]
A designated National Historic Landmark, in 2006 the Newark Earthworks was also designated as the "official prehistoric monument of the State of Ohio." [ 2 ] This is part of the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks , one of 14 sites nominated in January 2008 by the U.S. Department of the Interior for potential submission by the United States to the ...
Galeocerdo alabamensis is an extinct relative of the modern tiger shark. Nomenclature of this shark has been debated, and recent literature identified it more closely with the Physogaleus genus of prehistoric shark, rather than Galeocerdo. The classification of Physogaleus is known as tiger-like sharks while Galeocerdo refers to
The sharks were about 50 feet long, experts say.