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  2. Phyllopod bed - Wikipedia

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    Fossil Ridge forms the spectacular backdrop to the Phyllopod Bed. The phyllopod bed is a 2.31 m thick layer of the 7 m thick Greater Phyllopod Bed, [4] found in the Walcott Quarry on Fossil Ridge, between Wapta Mountain and Mount Field, at an elevation of around 2,300 metres (7,500 ft), around 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) north of the railway town of Field, British Columbia, in the Canadian Rocky ...

  3. Timeline of paleontology - Wikipedia

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    2009 — Fossils of Titanoboa, a giant snake, are unearthed in the coal mines of Cerrejón in La Guajira, Colombia, suggesting paleocene equatorial temperatures were higher than today. [ 16 ] 2016 — Tail fossils of a baby species of Coelurosaur , fully preserved in amber including soft tissue, are found in Myanmar by Lida Xing [ 17 ]

  4. History of paleontology - Wikipedia

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    The history of paleontology traces the history of the effort to understand the history of life on Earth by studying the fossil record left behind by living organisms. Since it is concerned with understanding living organisms of the past, paleontology can be considered to be a field of biology, but its historical development has been closely tied to geology and the effort to understand the ...

  5. History of paleontology in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The first major fossil discovery to attract the attention of formally trained scientists were the Ice Age fossils of Kentucky's Big Bone Lick. These fossils were studied by eminent intellectuals like France's George Cuvier and local statesmen and frontiersman like Daniel Boone , Benjamin Franklin , William Henry Harrison , Thomas Jefferson ...

  6. Joggins Formation - Wikipedia

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    The Joggins Formation is a geologic formation in Nova Scotia.It preserves fossils dating back to the Westphalian stage or Moscovian stage of the Upper Carboniferous period or Pennsylvanian period, including Hylonomus, the earliest known reptile.

  7. Bison antiquus - Wikipedia

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    Bison antiquus is known from fossils found across North America south of the Laurentide Ice Sheet (whose southernmost extent is around the modern United States-Canada border), ranging from southern Canada (southern Alberta [8] and Ontario [10]) in the north, and Washingon State [11] and California [12] in the west, southwards to Southern Mexico [9] and eastwards to South Carolina and Florida.

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