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Fossilized mastodon remains of a single individual were found at SV-2 that may have been killed, butchered, and cooked, indicating possible Pre Clovis activity in the Saltville Valley. [ 2 ] Musk-Oxen were discovered in the Saltville Valley by Clayton E. Ray during joint salvage test excavations held from 1966 through 1967 by the Smithsonian ...
A living Erethizon dorsatum, or North American porcupine †Erethizon dorsatum; Erolia; Eschrichtius †Eschrichtius robustus; Esox †Esox americanus – or unidentified comparable form; Eulima; Eumeces †Eumeces laticeps – or unidentified comparable form; Eupleura †Eupleura caudata; Life restoration of the Miocene whale Eurhinodelphis ...
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.
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.
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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 ...
A new study led by scientists at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), after analyzing pristine fossil samples from the Burgess Shale in British Columbia, concluded that O. alata was likely one of the ...
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.