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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.
Fossilized Icelandic vegetation older than 10 million years old shows similarities to vegetation that grew in the deciduous forests of North America and bears witness to a milder climate than is currently prevalent on the island. [3] It is therefore likely that, at this time or earlier, there was a land bridge between proto-Iceland and North ...
The oldest of the Hawaiian islands is a little more than 5 million years old, [1] and the Paleobiology Database records no known occurrences of Precambrian, Paleozoic, or Mesozoic fossils in Hawaii. Cenozoic
Though a majority of the taxa listed below lived during the latest early Campanian (c. 80.5 million years ago; fossils from the site Ivö Klack alone from this time compromise about 40 vertebrate species and more than 200 invertebrate species), [1] the Kristianstad Basin preserves fossils ranging in age from the early Santonian (c. 86.3 million ...
Fossil of the Middle Ordovician trilobite Illaenus †Illaenus †Kaulangiophyton †Kaulangiophyton akantha †Kolihadiscus †Kolihadiscus somerseti – type locality for species †Leptaena †Leptaena rhomboidalis †Lesueurilla – tentative report †Lophospira †Lophospira milleri – or unidentified comparable form †Mesoleptostrophia ...
†Ambocoelia umbonata – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature †Ambonychia †Ambonychia carinata †Ambonychia elroyi †Ambonychia obesa †Amphilichas †Amphilichas cucullus – tentative report †Anazyga †Anazyga recurvirostra; Fossil of the Carboniferous horsetail relative Annularia ...
Arlington Springs Man [nb 1] was an ancient Paleoindian, [1] most likely a man, [2] whose remains were found in 1959 on Santa Rosa Island, one of the Channel Islands located off the coast of Southern California.
Fossils of the Cambrian mollusc Scenella †Scenella †Scenella compressa †Scenella obtusa †Similodonta †Skenidioides †Sowerbyella †Spyroceras †Stigmatella †Strepsodiscus †Strophomena †Strophomena billingsi †Strophomena filitexta †Strophomena incurvata †Strophomena plattinensis – or unidentified comparable form ...