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A set of complete ribs, vertebrae, a scapula, and tarsals have been found to date. A left astragalus, left calcaneus, and an undistinguished partial carpal or tarsal exhibit postmortem alterations that may represent carnivorous scavenging by either a wolf (canis dirus), large bear (arctodus simus), or an American lion (panthera atrox). [4]
This list of the prehistoric life of Virginia contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Virginia. Precambrian [ edit ]
This list of the Paleozoic life of Virginia contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Virginia and are between 538.8 and 252.17 million years of age.
The American lion (Panthera atrox (/ ˈ p æ n θ ər ə ˈ æ t r ɒ k s /), with the species name meaning "savage" or "cruel", also called the North American lion) is an extinct pantherine cat native to North America during the Late Pleistocene from around 130,000 to 12,800 years ago.
No Precambrian fossils are known from Virginia. [1] The geologic column in Virginia begins at the Cambrian and spans to the Quaternary. [2] Although present, the state's Cambrian rocks preserve very few fossils and no documented individual deposit has proven a fertile collecting ground. [3] The state was covered by a warm shallow sea at the ...
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Fossil displays at the Virginia Museum of Natural History. In the foreground is a large Thrombolite-stromatolite (1.9 m diameter). In the background, the skeleton of a theropod dinosaur. Closeup of the enormous fossil Thrombolite-stromatolite above, found in a quarry in Bedford, Virginia in 2008.
A fossil preparator handles fossils found in Petrified Forest National Park at the museum's demonstration lab. Visitors are not allowed to take fossils from the park.