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During the Ice Age, Virginia was home to mastodons. During the late 18th century, Thomas Jefferson directed his scholarly attention to local fossils. Dinosaur tracks were discovered at Oak Hill in the 1920s. The scallop Chesapecten jeffersonius is the Virginia state fossil.
Fossil of the Middle-Late Ordovician giant trilobite Isotelus. †Isotelus †Isotelus maximus †Kingstonia †Kionoceras †Komaspidella †Kootenia †Krausella †Kutorgina †Labyrinthus †Latouchella; Restoration of the Carboniferous-Late Triassic club moss relative Lepidodendron. Eli Heimans (1911). †Lepidodendron †Levisoceras; Lingula
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.
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 ...
The site is on the property of Colonial Williamsburg, a living history museum that tells the story of the capital of Britain's Virginia colony in the 18th century.
“Archaeological evidence of continental barracks in Virginia is rare,” the foundation says in a blog post. “This site, which was occupied from 1777-1781, is particularly valuable since it ...
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In 1687, Martin Lister published a drawing of C. jeffersonius, making it the first North American fossil to be illustrated in scientific literature. [2]In 1824, geologist John Finch gathered a large collection of mollusk fossils, including Chesapecten jeffersonius, from the vicinity of Yorktown, Virginia, and gave them to scientists at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP).