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List of the Paleozoic life of Wisconsin. This list of the Paleozoic life of Wisconsin contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Wisconsin and are between 538.8 and 252.17 million years of age.
The location of the state of Wisconsin. Paleontology in Wisconsin refers to paleontological research occurring within or conducted by people from the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The state has fossils from the Precambrian, much of the Paleozoic, some a parts of the Mesozoic and the later part of the Cenozoic. Most of the Paleozoic rocks are marine ...
The UW–Madison Geology Museum (UWGM) is a geology and paleontology museum housed in Weeks Hall, in the southwest part of the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus. The museum's main undertakings are exhibits, outreach to the public, and research. It has the second highest attendance of any museum at the University of Wisconsin–Madison ...
Blackberry Hill is a Konservat-Lagerstätte of Cambrian age located within the Elk Mound Group in Marathon County, Wisconsin. [1] It is found in a series of quarries and outcrops that are notable for their large concentration of exceptionally preserved trace fossils in Cambrian tidal flats. One quarry in particular also has the distinction of ...
The Dinosaur Discovery Museum in Kenosha, Wisconsin, United States, is dedicated to the exploration and explication of the relationship between modern birds and ancient carnivorous biped dinosaurs, the theropods, which include Carnotaurus, Tyrannosaurus rex, and Archaeopteryx. This link is especially well documented in the fossil record.
Jurassic Coast – World Heritage Site on the coast of southern England. Lagerstätte – Sedimentary deposit with well-preserved extraordinary fossils. Lists of dinosaur-bearing stratigraphic units. List of fossil parks around the world. List of fossil parks in India. Pleistocene fossils in Michigan. List of human evolution fossils.
This list of the prehistoric life of Wisconsin contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Wisconsin. Precambrian [ edit ] The Paleobiology Database records no known occurrences of Precambrian fossils in Wisconsin.
Region. Wisconsin. Country. United States. The Mayville Formation is a geologic formation in Wisconsin. It preserves fossils dating back to the Silurian period. It is the principle cliff-forming unit in the Niagara Escarpment. [1]