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Replica of the near-complete skeleton of Mammut americanum - Burning Tree Mastodon (Upper Pleistocene, 11.39 ka) at the Burning Tree Golf Course. The Burning Tree Mastodon site in Heath, southern Licking County, Ohio, represents the location where the most complete skeleton of American mastodon was found. It is dated to about 11,500 BP.
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.
Near the end of the Mississippian the seas withdrew from the state. Ohio was located near the equator. The fossil record of Ohio includes greater numbers of land plants, brachiopods, clams, crinoids, fishes. [4] Ohio was a low-lying swampy plain near the coast during the Pennsylvanian. Its latitude was near the equator.
An intact prehistoric mastodon jaw was discovered in the backyard of a Hudson Valley house after the homeowner initially saw a pair of teeth poking up by a plant, according to state officials.
The Columbus conformably overlies the Lucas Dolomite in northeastern Ohio, and unconformably overlies other dolomite elsewhere. It unconformably underlies the Ohio Shale in northwestern Ohio and the Delaware Limestone in eastern Ohio.
A cast of a Dunkleosteus fossil found near Cleveland, Ohio. The Columbus Limestone is especially fossil bearing and outcrops in a band between Columbus and Sandusky County, as well as on Kelleys Island in Lake Erie. The best fossil exposures are found at limestone quarries along the belt, which supply local concrete demand.
Lake Callabonna Fossil Reserve; Lake Ngapakaldi to Lake Palankarinna Fossil Area; Maslin Bay - Aldinga Bay Geological Site [1] Naracoorte Caves National Park; Nilpena Ediacara National Park; Willalinchina Sandstone Fossil Flora site, near Woomera [2]
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