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The private sale of fossils has attracted criticism from paleontologists, as it presents an obstacle to fossils being publicly accessible to research. [2] Most countries where relatively complete dinosaur specimens are commonly found have laws against the export of fossils. The United States allows the sale of specimens collected on private ...
Oklahoma was a terrestrial environment for most of the ensuing Mesozoic era. [3] The Late Triassic Dockum Group of western Oklahoma preserved remains of archosaurs and temnospondyls, although its fossil record is restricted to a narrow region of the panhandle and is far sparser than the equivalent records in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. [98]
Pronolagus humpatensis is a small-sized fossil species of lagomorph from the early Pleistocene [3] of Humpata Plateau, Huíla, Angola [4] and Namibia. [5] Its remains have been identified in limestone breccias and tufas from Plio-Pleistocene [6] infills in the karsts of Huíla Province, [7] and is known from fragmented leg, skull and jaw bones from multiple individuals.
This list of fossil sites is a worldwide list of localities known well for the presence of fossils. Some entries in this list are notable for a single, unique find, while others are notable for the large number of fossils found there.
Fossil of the Carboniferous horsetail relative Annularia †Annularia †Annularia sphenophylloides †Annularia stellata †Anomphalus †Anthracoceras †Aphlebia †Archaeocidaris; Archaeolithophyllum †Archeria †Archimedes †Archimedes distans †Archimedes meekanoides †Archimedes meekanus – or unidentified comparable form †Arkanites
This article contains a list of fossil-bearing stratigraphic units in the state of Oklahoma, U.S. Sites. Group or Formation
The Sam Noble Museum has received a number of national and international awards, including the national award for Collection Stewardship and Heritage Preservation in 2004; the National Medal for Museums from the Institute of Museums and Library Services in 2014, the highest award from the U.S. government for a museum for being an institution that makes a difference for individuals, families ...
Richards Spur is a Permian fossil locality located at the Dolese Brothers Limestone Quarry north of Lawton, Oklahoma. The locality preserves clay and mudstone fissure fills of a karst system eroded out of Ordovician limestone and dolomite , with the infilling dating to the Artinskian stage of the early Permian ( Cisuralian ), around 289 to 286 ...