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2. Fossil collecting - Wikipedia

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   Fossil collecting (sometimes, in a non-scientific sense, fossil hunting) is the collection of the fossils for scientific study, hobby, or profit. Fossil collecting, as practiced by amateurs, is the predecessor of modern paleontology and many still collect fossils and study fossils as amateurs. Professionals and amateurs alike collect fossils ...

3. Maysville roadcut - Wikipedia

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   Roadcuts such as Maysville provide a unique opportunity for fossil hunters to view well preserved fossils in relatively open stratigraphy layers. Many of the fossils found are often loose and scattered among the rock, with some being found in larger chunks or slabs of rock. They can be found whole or fragmented.

4. Paleontology in Ohio - Wikipedia

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   During the late Mississippian Ohio was covered by a shallow sea. 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 ...

5. Amateur fossil hunter uncovers 7ft-long fully intact giant ...

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   An amateur fossil hunter has uncovered a 7 ft-long, fully intact mammoth tusk in a creek near a Mississippi river stream, a world-first discovery that sheds more light on the region’s ecology ...

6. Fossil - Wikipedia

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   Fossil collecting (sometimes, in a non-scientific sense, fossil hunting) is the collection of fossils for scientific study, hobby, or profit. Fossil collecting, as practiced by amateurs, is the predecessor of modern paleontology and many still collect fossils and study fossils as amateurs.

7. List of fossil sites - Wikipedia

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   Florissant Fossil Beds: Florissant Formation: Eocene (Priabonian) North America: US: Colorado: Insects: Fossil Prairie Park: Devonian: North America: US: Iowa: Mazon Creek: Francis Creek Shale: Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) North America: US: Illinois [Note 1] Ghost Ranch: Triassic: North America: US: New Mexico: Non-Avian Dinosaurs [Note 1 ...

8. Fossil-hunting diver says he has found a large section of ...

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   The tusk measures about 4 feet (1.2 meters) and weighs 70 pounds (31 kilograms), Lundberg said, and was found at a depth of about 25 feet (7.6 meters) near Venice, Florida.

9. Mary Anning - Wikipedia

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   Lyme Regis, Dorset. Mary Anning [1] was born in Lyme Regis in Dorset, England, on 21 May 1799. [2] Her father, Richard Anning (c. 1766–1810), was a cabinetmaker and carpenter who supplemented his income by mining the coastal cliff-side fossil beds near the town, and selling his finds to tourists; her mother was Mary Moore (c. 1764–1842) known as Molly. [3]