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  2. White Sands fossil footprints - Wikipedia

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    Fossil footprints from White Sands National Park. The White Sands fossil footprints are a set of fossilized human footprints discovered in 2009 in the White Sands National Park in New Mexico. In 2021 they were radiocarbon dated, based on seeds found in the sediment layers, to between 21,000 and 23,000 years ago. [1]

  3. Prehistoric Trackways National Monument - Wikipedia

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    Prehistoric Trackways National Monument is a national monument in the Robledo Mountains of Doña Ana County, New Mexico, United States, near the city of Las Cruces. The monument's Paleozoic Era fossils are on 5,255 acres (2,127 ha) [1] of land administered by the Bureau of Land Management. [2]

  4. Tularosa Basin - Wikipedia

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    The White Sands fossil footprints in the Tularosa Basin are estimated by the National Park Service to be 21 000 to 23 000 years old and include footprints possibly showing humans stalking a giant sloth. [1] The footprints are located at the shore of an ice age era lake. As of November 2021, 61 fossil footprints have been found at the site. [2]

  5. Further evidence points to footprints in New Mexico being the ...

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    The footprints were discovered at the edge of an ancient lakebed in White Sands National Park and date back to between 21,000 and 23,000 years ago, according to research published Thursday in the ...

  6. Oldest human footprints in North America found in New Mexico

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    Fossilized footprints discovered in New Mexico indicate that early humans were walking across North America around 23,000 years ago, researchers reported Thursday. The first footprints were found ...

  7. List of the prehistoric life of New Mexico - Wikipedia

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    †Acanthoceras †Acanthoceras amphibolum Acipenser †Adocus †Ahshislepelta – type locality for genus †Ahshislepelta minor – type locality for species Diagram illustrating the sizes of three specimens of the Late Cretaceous long-necked dinosaur Alamosaurus, with an anachronistic human to scale †Alamosaurus – type locality for genus

  8. Paleontology in New Mexico - Wikipedia

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    Paleontology in New Mexico refers to paleontological research occurring within or conducted by people from the U.S. state of New Mexico. The fossil record of New Mexico is exceptionally complete and spans almost the entire stratigraphic column. [1] More than 3,300 different kinds of fossil organisms have been found in the state.

  9. History of paleontology in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Lucas S, Herne M, Heckert A, Hunt A, and Sullivan R. Reappraisal of Seismosaurus, A Late Jurassic Sauropod Dinosaur from New Mexico. Archived 2019-10-08 at the Wayback Machine The Geological Society of America, 2004 Denver Annual Meeting (November 7–10, 2004). Retrieved on 2007-05-24. Mayor, Adrienne. Fossil Legends of the First Americans ...