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Hartley Mammoth Site. / 36.24583°N 106.53333°W / 36.24583; -106.53333. The Hartley Mammoth Site is a pre-Clovis archaeological and paleontological site in New Mexico. Preserving the butchered remains of two Columbian mammoths, small mammals and fish, the site is notable due to its age (~37,500 BP), which is significantly older than ...
The location of the state of New Mexico. Paleontology in New Mexico refers to paleontological research occurring within or conducted by people from the U.S. state of New Mexico. The fossil record of New Mexico is exceptionally complete and spans almost the entire stratigraphic column. [1] More than 3,300 different kinds of fossil organisms have ...
Folsom site or Wild Horse Arroyo, designated by the Smithsonian trinomial 29CX1, is a major archaeological site about 8 miles (13 km) west of Folsom, New Mexico. It is the type site for the Folsom tradition, a Paleo-Indian cultural sequence dating to between 11000 BC and 10000 BC. The Folsom site was excavated in 1926 and found to have been a ...
Kayak adventurers found an incredibly rare, 4-meter-long “sea serpent” washed ashore in San Diego. It was the latest in only 20 encounters in California waters since 1901. The post “Bad Omen ...
The Cerutti Mastodon site is a paleontological and possible archeological site located in San Diego County, California. In 2017, researchers announced that broken mastodon bones at the site had been dated to around 130,700 years ago. The bones were found with cobblestones displaying use-wear and impact marks among the otherwise fine-grain sands.
The San Diego Formation Basin is a confined shallow aquifer. It has a basin ground surface area of 79,724 acres (32,263 ha) and an estimated groundwater storage capacity of 960,000 AF. The depth to groundwater is about 100 feet (30 m). [3] The groundwater in the San Diego Formation is brackish, and its quality is considered to be fair to poor. [3]
Knightia is an extinct genus of clupeid bony fish that lived in the freshwater lakes and rivers of North America and Asia during the Eocene epoch. The genus was erected by David Starr Jordan in 1907, in honor of the late University of Wyoming professor Wilbur Clinton Knight, "an indefatigable student of the paleontology of the Rocky Mountains." [1]
Barracuda are snake -like in appearance, with prominent, sharp-edged, fang -like teeth, much like piranha, all of different sizes, set in sockets of their large jaws. They have large, pointed heads with an underbite in many species. Their gill covers have no spines and are covered with small scales. Their two dorsal fins are widely separated ...