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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human evolution. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-46786-5. (Note: this book contains very useful, information dense chapters on primate evolution in general, and human evolution in particular, including fossil history). Leakey, Richard & Lewin, Roger. Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes us Human ...
This article contains a list of fossil-bearing stratigraphic units in the state of Oklahoma, U.S. Sites. Group or Formation
Fossil of the Cambrian-Middle Devonian trilobite Cheirurus †Cheirurus †Chonetes †Chonetes mesoloba †Cladochonus †Cleiothyridina †Cleiothyridina orbicularis †Clepsydrops; Cliona †Colobomycter – type locality for genus †Colobomycter pholeter – type locality for species †Composita †Composita mexicana †Composita rotunda
This list of the Paleozoic life of Oklahoma contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Oklahoma and are between 541 and 252.17 million years of age.
A new discovery by an international team of archeologists examining fossils from the Cova Negra cave near Xàtiva, Spain—an area known to have housed Neanderthals some 273,000 to 146,000 years ...
Oklahoma was a terrestrial environment for most of the ensuing Mesozoic era. [3] The Late Triassic Dockum Group of western Oklahoma preserved remains of archosaurs and temnospondyls, although its fossil record is restricted to a narrow region of the panhandle and is far sparser than the equivalent records in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. [98]
Many of these fossils had been overlooked because when they were first unearthed in the 1970s and 1980s, commonly held beliefs about human origins were vastly different from today’s theories.
Fossils attributed to H. sapiens, along with stone tools, dated to approximately 300,000 years ago, found at Jebel Irhoud, Morocco [51] yield the earliest fossil evidence for anatomically modern Homo sapiens. Modern human presence in East Africa , at 276 kya. [52]