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In 1816, the state's famous fossil site at Montgomery Landing was discussed in writing. [3] It was not until 2004 that any dinosaur fossils were reported from Louisiana. The first such find was a single tooth reworked out of Cretaceous rocks and preserved in a Miocene-aged fossil deposit near Fort Polk. The dinosaur it came from probably lived ...
This list of the Cenozoic life of Louisiana contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Louisiana and are between 66 million and 10,000 years of age.
Group or Formation Period Notes Citronelle Formation: Neogene: Claiborne Group / Cane River Formation (Cook Mountain Formation or St. Maurice Formation)Paleogene: Claiborne Group / Lisbon Formation
Scientists discovered a 520-million-year-old fossilized larva with brains and guts intact, offering unprecedented insights into early arthropod evolution.
Dinosaur Valley State Park [Note 2] Glen Rose Formation: Cretaceous (Aptian-Albian) North America: US: Texas: Dinosaur footprints Gray Fossil Site: Miocene: North America: US: Tennessee: Mammals Fossil Butte National Monument [Note 3] Green River Formation: Eocene: North America: US: Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming: Fishes [Note 1] Schreiber ...
Researchers have uncovered a "dinosaur highway" after hundreds of giant prehistoric footprints dating back 166 million years were found in an English quarry.
The latest dinosaur being mounted at the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles is not only a member of a new species — it's also the only one found on the planet whose bones are green, according ...
Seven states and the District of Columbia still lack an explicit state fossil: Arkansas: still no state fossil in Arkansas, though the state designated Arkansaurus as its state dinosaur. [1] District of Columbia: Capitalsaurus is the state dinosaur of Washington D.C., but the District has not chosen a state fossil. Florida: There is no state ...