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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, North Carolina was covered by a warm shallow sea that was home to corals, jellyfish, and Pteridinium. This sea remained in place during the early part of the Paleozoic era and was ...
Knightia is an extinct genus of clupeid bony fish that lived in the freshwater lakes and rivers of North America and Asia during the Eocene epoch. The genus was erected by David Starr Jordan in 1907, in honor of the late University of Wyoming professor Wilbur Clinton Knight, "an indefatigable student of the paleontology of the Rocky Mountains." [1]
Astarte – tentative report. † Asteracanthus. † Atreipus. † Baena – tentative report. † Baikuris – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature. Barbatia. Fossilized guard of the Late Cretaceous belemnoid cephalopod Belemnitella. † Belemnitella. † Belemnitella americana.
Atlantic Ocean. Chowan and lower Roanoke drainage basins. North Landing River. Northwest River. North River. Pasquotank River. Little River. Perquimans River. Yeopim River.
Looking Glass Dome. The geology of North Carolina includes ancient Proterozoic rocks belonging to the Grenville Province in the Blue Ridge.The region experienced igneous activity and the addition of new terranes and orogeny mountain building events throughout the Paleozoic, followed by the rifting of the Atlantic Ocean and the deposition of thick sediments in the Coastal Plain and offshore waters.
The location of the state of New Mexico. Paleontology in New Mexico refers to paleontological research occurring within or conducted by people from the U.S. state of New Mexico. The fossil record of New Mexico is exceptionally complete and spans almost the entire stratigraphic column. [1] More than 3,300 different kinds of fossil organisms have ...
On November 21, 1789, North Carolina became the 12th state to ratify the United States Constitution. From colonial times, through the American Civil War, the illegal enslavement of humans was legal in North Carolina. Tensions on the issue of illegal enslavement and servitude would lead as the main cause of the Civil War.
New River State Park. New River State Park is a North Carolina state park in Ashe County, North Carolina in the United States. Located near Jefferson, North Carolina, it covers 3,323 acres (13.45 km 2) [2] in the protected New River watershed. The New River is one of the oldest rivers in the United States. It is considered by some geologists to ...