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Mastodon State Historic Site is a publicly owned, 431-acre (174 ha) archaeological and paleontological site with recreational features in Imperial, Missouri, maintained by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, preserving the Kimmswick Bone Bed. [5] Bones of mastodons and other now-extinct animals were first found here in the early 19th ...
Hypsibema missouriensis (/ ˌ h ɪ p s ɪ ˈ b iː m ə m ɪ ˌ z ʊər i ˈ ɛ n s ɪ s /; [1] originally Neosaurus missouriensis, first renamed to Parrosaurus missouriensis, [1] [2] also spelled Hypsibema missouriense [3]) is a species of plant-eating dinosaur in the genus Hypsibema, and the state dinosaur of the U.S. state Missouri.
Overall, the skull is similar to that of modern baboons, except that it generally lacks the facial fossae (depressions on the sides of the muzzle and lower jaw) and maxillary ridges (ridges of bone that run along the upper sides of the snout). [2] [4] For these reasons, Dinopithecus is sometimes treated as a subgenus of Papio. [2] [7]
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Baboon Temporal range: 2.0–0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ Early Pleistocene – Recent Olive baboon Yellow baboon calls recorded in Kenya Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Primates Suborder: Haplorhini Infraorder: Simiiformes Family: Cercopithecidae Tribe: Papionini Genus: Papio Erxleben, 1777 Type species Papio ...
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This list of the prehistoric life of Missouri contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of ...
Some of the state's early tetrapods left behind footprints that would later fossilize in the vicinity of Kansas City. [9] The sea covering Missouri was gradually filled in by sediments eroded off mountains to the east. Missouri was no longer covered by the sea by the end of the Carboniferous. [3] Sedimentation resumed during the Cretaceous. [3]