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Paleontology in Illinois refers to paleontological research occurring within or conducted by people from the U.S. state of Illinois. Scientists have found that Illinois was covered by a sea during the Paleozoic Era. Over time this sea was inhabited by animals including brachiopods, clams, corals, crinoids, sea snails, sponges, and trilobites.
Paleogeographic reconstruction showing the Illinois Basin area during the Middle Devonian period. [9] Almost all Silurian rocks in Illinois are deep-water limestone and dolomite deposits; reef habitats were common, and fossils of reef organisms are locally highly abundant, including corals, brachiopods, crinoids, stromatoporoids, and bryozoans. [6]
The Neogene (/ ˈ n iː. ə dʒ iː n / NEE-ə-jeen, [6] [7]) is a geologic period and system that spans 20.45 million years from the end of the Paleogene Period 23.04 million years ago to the beginning of the present Quaternary Period 2.58 million years ago.
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The Neogene Period is a unit of geologic time starting 23.03 Ma. [10] and ends at 2.588 Ma. The Neogene Period follows the Paleogene Period.
The Aquitanian Stage was named after the Aquitaine region in France and was introduced in scientific literature by Swiss stratigrapher Karl Mayer-Eymar in 1858.. The base of the Aquitanian (also the base of the Miocene Series and the Neogene System) is defined as the place in the stratigraphic column at the first appearance of foram species Paragloborotalia kugleri, the extinction of ...
The Illinois Newspaper Project, as part of the USNP, completed work in July 2010. To date, INP staff has inventoried and cataloged 21,000+ U.S. newspaper titles, added 26,000+ holdings records to the newspaper union list in OCLC , and microfilmed almost 2,250,000 pages, becoming an important resource for scholars, genealogists, and ancestry ...
Lanius hungaricus is an extinct species of Lanius that inhabited Hungary during the Neogene period. [1] References This page was last ...