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Fossils are common in North Carolina. According to author Rufus Johnson, "almost every major river and creek east of Interstate 95 has exposures where fossils can be found". [1] The fossil record of North Carolina spans from Eocambrian remains that are 600 million years old, to the Pleistocene 10,000 years ago. About 600 million years ago ...
Rutiodon ("Wrinkle tooth") is an extinct genus of mystriosuchine phytosaurs from the Late Triassic of the eastern United States. [1] The type species of Rutiodon, Rutiodon carolinensis, encompasses a large number of skulls and assorted postcranial fossils discovered in the Cumnock Formation of North Carolina.
This list of the prehistoric life of North Carolina contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of North Carolina. Precambrian-Paleozoic
Living Abies, or fir trees Abies † Abra † Abra aequalis † Abra subreflexa Acanthocybium † Acanthocybium solandri † Acantholambrus † Acantholambrus baumi † Acarinina † Acarinina perclara † Achrochordiella – type locality for genus † Achrochordiella vokesi – type locality for species Acipenser † Acipenser oxyrhynchus – or unidentified comparable form Acrosterigma ...
MNA V3680 is the earliest example of a tetrapod with completely enclosed tooth canals for the delivery of oral toxins, which are seen today in elapid snakes. MNA V3680, along with several other teeth from the Cumnock Formation near Raleigh, North Carolina, represent a second species of Uatchitodon, U. schneideri. This species, although ...
Possible teeth have been found in Alabama, North Carolina and South Carolina. Sauroposeidon: Lower Cretaceous: herbivore: A massive sauropod whose remains have been unearthed in Texas and Oklahoma. Teihivenator: Upper Cretaceous: carnivore: A dubious species of tyrannosaur that was unearthed in New Jersey. Texasetes: Lower Cretaceous: herbivore
Most O. auriculatus teeth come from South Carolina and North Carolina. [4] However, many Eocene shark teeth are known from Khouribga Plateau, in Morocco and Seymour Island, in Antarctica. Fossil teeth have also been found in the United Kingdom and Kazakhstan, and the shark enjoyed a fairly global distribution. [6]
A mastodon (mastós 'breast' + odoús 'tooth') is a member of the genus Mammut (German for 'mammoth'), which was endemic to North America and lived from the late Miocene to the early Holocene. Mastodons belong to the order Proboscidea, the same order as elephants and mammoths (which belong to the family Elephantidae).