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The Moccasin Bluff site (also designated 20BE8) is an archaeological site located along the Red Bud Trail and the St. Joseph River north of Buchanan, Michigan.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, [1] and has been classified as a multi-component prehistoric site with the major component dating to the Late Woodland/Upper Mississippian period.
This is a list of U.S. state dinosaurs in the United States, including the District of Columbia. Many states also have dinosaurs as state fossils , or designate named avian dinosaurs ( List of U.S. state birds ), but this list only includes those that have been officially designated as "state dinosaurs".
The most common mammals in Michigan's Pleistocene fossil record were caribou, elk, Jefferson mammoths, American mastodons, and woodland muskoxen. Less common members of Michigan's fossil record included black bears, giant beavers, white-tailed deer, Scott's moose, muskrats, peccaries, and meadow voles. [10]
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 ...
In 1800, the Indiana Territory was created, and most of the current state Michigan lay within it, with only the easternmost parts of the state remaining in the Northwest Territory. [4] In 1802, when Ohio was admitted to the Union , the whole of Michigan was attached to the Territory of Indiana, and so remained until 1805, when the Territory of ...
In 1925, the state legislature appropriated $900,000 (equivalent to $12,500,000 in 2023) for the construction of a new museum building, which would house researchers' offices and public exhibits. The new University Museums Buildling was completed in 1928, and housed musuems of anthropology , paleontology and zoology , and a herbarium .
The state has over 300 named rivers. Several names are shared by different rivers; for example, there are eight Pine Rivers and seven Black Rivers. In four cases there are two rivers of the same name in one county. In these cases extra information such as alternate name or body of water they flow into has been added.
Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Michigan (1 C, 66 P) Pages in category "Archaeological sites in Michigan" The following 80 pages are in this category, out of 80 total.