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Ju et al. (2021) revise the fossil material of Iteravis huchzermeyeri and Gansus zheni, and consider these species to be synonymous. [347] A study on the bone histology of Gansus yumenensis, and on its implications for the knowledge of the evolution of uninterrupted bone deposition in birds, is published by Monfroy et al. (2021). [348]
The geologic time scale, proportionally represented as a log-spiral with some major events in Earth's history. A megaannus (Ma) represents one million (10 6) years.. The geologic time scale or geological time scale (GTS) is a representation of time based on the rock record of Earth.
This includes the study of body fossils, tracks , burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces , palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science. This article records significant discoveries and events related to ...
The Mazon Creek fossil beds are a conservation lagerstätte found near Morris, in Grundy County, Illinois. The fossils are preserved in ironstone concretions , formed approximately 309 million years ago in the mid- Pennsylvanian epoch of the Carboniferous period.
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Arkansas: still no state fossil in Arkansas, though the state designated Arkansaurus as its state dinosaur. [1] District of Columbia: Capitalsaurus is the state dinosaur of Washington D.C., but the District has not chosen a state fossil. Florida: There is no state fossil in Florida, though agatised coral, which is a fossil, is the state stone ...
1812 - Cuvier draws skeletal reconstructions of "Palaeotherium" minor (= Plagiolophus minor), "Anoplotherium medium" (= Xiphodon gracilis), and, most famously, Anoplotherium commune based on known fossil remains (of which A. commune was the most nearly complete) and publishes them in his 1812 summary of fossil mammals from Paris.