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Hanging Rock National Natural Landmark is a 4-acre (1.6 ha) site in Wabash County, Indiana, [1] that was designated a National Natural Landmark in May 1986. [2] The site, located on the southern bank of the Wabash River near the town of Lagro, contains an impressive natural exposure of fossilized coral reef dating from the Silurian Period some 400 million years ago.
The location of the state of Indiana. Paleontology in Indiana refers to paleontological research occurring within or conducted by people from the U.S. state of Indiana. Indiana's fossil record stretches back to the Precambrian, when the state was inhabited by microbes. More complex organisms came to inhabit the state during the early Paleozoic era.
Fossilized calyx of the Carboniferous crinoid ("sea lily") Abrotocrinus †Abrotocrinus †Abrotocrinus coreyi †Abrotocrinus nodosus †Abrotocrinus unicus †Achistrum †Achistrum brevis – type locality for species †Achistrum ludwigi †Achistrum nicholsoni †Achistrum triassicum †Acidaspis † Acrophyllum †Actinocrinites ...
5. Pokagon State Park. Pokagon State Park, a little over an hour east of South Bend off of I-69, in Angola, Ind., had about 710,000 visitors last year and is Indiana’s fifth state park.
Clark State Forest - 25,288.8 acres (19 km 2) Deam Lake State Recreation Area; Ferdinand State Forest - 7,789.9 acres (10 km 2) Frances Slocum State Forest; Greene–Sullivan State Forest – 9,048.8 acres (1.3 km 2); Athens County; Harrison–Crawford State Forest – 24,322.7 acres (5 km 2) Jackson–Washington State Forest - 18,416.2 acres ...
Fosillised Footprints, Pontdrift, Soutpansberg District These fossilised reptile footprints occur in sandstone where there was a dune in earlier times which was later covered by basalt flows. The animals of tile vicinity presumably fled to the dune where a large number of fossilised prints of various animals a Type of site: Trace fossils.
The first state park in Indiana was McCormick's Creek State Park, in Owen County in 1916, followed in the same year by Turkey Run State Park in Parke County. The number of state parks rose steadily in the 1920s, mostly by donations of land from local authorities to the state government. Of the initial twelve parks, only Muscatatuck State Park ...
4.2.7 Indiana. 4.2.8 Iowa. 4.2.9 Maryland. ... Clayton Lake State Park; ... Dinosaur Valley State Park; Ladonia Fossil Park, Ladonia, Texas [5]