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Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument, a United States National Monument near Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada, was established in 2014 to protect Ice Age paleontological discoveries. The 22,650-acre (9,170 ha) monument is administered by the National Park Service. [1] Joshua trees at Tule Springs Fossil Beds NM
This article contains a list of fossil-bearing stratigraphic units in the state of Texas, U.S. Sites. Group or Formation Period ... Clarendon Beds: Neogene: Clear ...
This list of fossil sites is a worldwide list of localities known well for the presence of fossils.Some entries in this list are notable for a single, unique find, while others are notable for the large number of fossils found there.
Ice Age Fossils State Park is a 315-acre state park in North Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, on the northernmost fringe of the metropolitan area. It is located adjacent to the Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument near Willie McCool Regional Park. The park saw its grand opening on January 20, 2024.
The rest of Texas was a coastal plain inhabited by early relatives of mammals like Dimetrodon and Edaphosaurus. During the Triassic, a great river system formed in the state that was inhabited by crocodile-like phytosaurs. Little is known about Jurassic Texas, but there are fossil aquatic invertebrates of this age like ammonites in the state.
On land Nevada was home to a variety of mammals including both mastodons and rhinoceroses. [5] As the Cenozoic continued, Nevada's Sierra Nevada Mountains were raised. Volcanic activity was still ongoing. Local wildlife included camels, horses, mammoths, and giant ground sloths. [2] Nevada's trace fossil record from the Pleistocene is very rich.
Basin and Range National Monument is a national monument of the United States spanning approximately 704,000 acres (1,100 sq mi; 2,800 km 2) of remote, undeveloped mountains and valleys in Lincoln and Nye counties in southeastern Nevada. [1] It is described as "one of the emptiest spaces in a state famous for its emptiness." [2]
Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument: Nevada: 22,650.00 acres (91.6613 km 2) Tuzigoot National Monument: Arizona: 811.89 acres (3.2856 km 2) Virgin Islands Coral Reef National Monument: U.S. Virgin Islands: 12,708.07 acres (51.4277 km 2) Waco Mammoth National Monument: Texas: 107.23 acres (0.4339 km 2) Walnut Canyon National Monument: Arizona