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Many significant fossils curated by museums in Europe and the United States were found in Ohio. [1] Major local fossil discoveries include the 1965 discovery of more than 50,000 Devonian fish fossils in Cuyahoga County. The Ordovician trilobite Isotelus maximus is the Ohio state invertebrate fossil.
Prehistory of Ohio provides an overview of the activities that occurred prior to Ohio's recorded history. The ancient hunters, Paleo-Indians (13000 B.C. to 7000 B.C.), descended from humans that crossed the Bering Strait. There is evidence of Paleo-Indians in Ohio, who were hunter-gatherers that ranged
Castoroides fossils were first discovered in 1837 in a peat bog in Ohio, [6] hence the species epithet ohioensis. [9] Castoroides had cutting teeth up to 15 cm-long with prominently-ridged outer surfaces. These strong enamel ridges would have acted as girders to support such long teeth.
This list of the prehistoric life of Ohio contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Ohio.
Paleo Crossing site, also known as the Old Dague Farm site, [2] is an archaeological site near Sharon Center, Ohio in Medina County where Clovis artifacts dated to 10,980 BP ± 75 years Before Present were found. [3] The Cleveland Museum of Natural History conducted an excavation from 1990 to 1993. [4]
However, later research discovered four species of giraffes living in 21 countries in Africa. The four species include Reticulated, Masai, Southern, and Northern. Are Giraffes Endangered?
A mammal that disappeared from Ohio in the 1800s is making a comeback, and state biologists think it's here to stay. A fisher, a mammal related to river otters and weasels, found as roadkill in ...
He found a fragmentary Allosaurus, sauropods, and Stegosaurus. [86] A rare double-crested Dilophosaurus fossil was taken from the Navajo Reservation in 1942. Navajo man, Jesse Williams, discovered the nearly complete fossil in 1940, to years before Sam Welles, the famous bone-hunter for University of California, Berkeley, arrived. Welles dug up ...