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The location of the state of Ohio. Paleontology in Ohio refers to paleontological research occurring within or conducted by people from the U.S. state of Ohio. Ohio is well known for having a great quantity and diversity of fossils preserved in its rocks. The state's fossil record begins early in the Paleozoic era, during the Cambrian period.
Canada. Ancient Echoes Interpretive Centre, Saskatchewan. Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta. Driftwood Canyon Provincial Park, British Columbia. Yoho National Park ( Burgess Shale) UNESCO site, British Columbia. Joggins Fossil Cliffs UNESCO site, Nova Scotia. McAbee Fossil Beds Heritage Site. Parc national de Miguasha UNESCO site, Quebec.
The location of the United States in North America. Paleontology in the United States refers to paleontological research occurring within or conducted by people from the United States. Paleontologists have found that at the start of the Paleozoic era, what is now "North" America was actually in the southern hemisphere.
October 15, 1966. The Great Serpent Mound is a 1,348-feet-long (411 m), three-feet-high prehistoric effigy mound located in Peebles, Ohio. It was built on what is known as the Serpent Mound crater plateau, running along the Ohio Brush Creek in Adams County, Ohio. The mound is the largest serpent effigy known in the world.
2. Buckeye Lake State Park. Discover Ohio’s oldest state park, a cherished day-use gem located in Millersport. Once a feeder lake for Ohio’s canal system in the 1800s, Buckeye Lake has been a ...
Selected Paleozoic taxa of Ohio. Fossil of the Middle-Late Ordovician giant trilobite Isotelus. Life restoration of the Carboniferous-Permian amphibian Phlegethontia. Life restoration with a conifer-like body plan of the Silurian-Late Devonian tree-like probable fungus Prototaxites. John William Dawson (1888).
Fort Ancient (33 WA 2) is a Native American earthworks complex located in Washington Township, Warren County, Ohio, along the eastern shore of the Little Miami River about seven miles (11 km) southeast of Lebanon on State Route 350. The site is the largest prehistoric hilltop enclosure in the United States [2] with three and one-half miles ...
Paleo Crossing site. Paleo Crossing site, also known as the Old Dague Farm site, [2] is an archaeological site near Sharon Center, Ohio in Medina County where Clovis artifacts dated to 10,980 BP ± 75 years Before Present were found. [3] The Cleveland Museum of Natural History conducted an excavation from 1990 to 1993. [4]