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| x Agate Fossil Beds National Monument |
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Agate Fossil Beds National Monument is a U.S. National Monument near Harrison, Nebraska. The main feature of the Monument is a valley of the Niobrara River, and the fossils found on Carnegie Hill and University Hill..
The area largely consists of...
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| x Ahl al Oughlam |
Ahl al Oughlam is an important archaeological site and palaeontological site just outside of Casablanca in Morocco. Discovered in 1985 and first excavated in 1989, Ahl al Oughlam is the richest late Neogene vertebrate locality of North Africa. The...
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| x Alcoota |
The Alcoota Fossil Beds are an important paleontological site located on Alcoota Station in Central Australia, 200km north-east of Alice Springs. It is notable for the occurrence of well-preserved, rare, Tertiary vertebrate fossils, which provide...
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| x Aquia Formation |
The Aquia Formation is a paleocene fossil site located near the Potomac River in Maryland and Virginia.
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| x Ashfall Fossil Beds |
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The Ashfall Fossil Beds of Antelope County in northeastern Nebraska are among the rare preservation sites called lagerstätten, which preserve ecological "snapshots" from a brief moment in time, due to extraordinary local conditions that have...
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| x Atapuerca |
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The Atapuerca Mountains (Sierra de Atapuerca in Spanish) is an ancient karstic region of Spain, in the province of Burgos and near the town of the same name and Ibeas de Juarros. It contains several caves, where fossils and stone tools of the...
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| x Auca Mahuevo |
The sedimentary deposits in eroded badlands at Auca Mahuevo in the Patagonian province of Neuquen, Argentina, are among the paleontologist's rare lagerstätten, the undisturbed strata that give glimpses of a range of ecology at a given moment in the...
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| x Azykh Cave |
The Azykh Cave (alternatively known as Azikh or Azokh; Azeri: Azıx mağarası) is an impressive six-cave complex known as a living site of stone-age man. It lies about 3 km northeast of Tugh village in southern Karabakh, an area legally within the...
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| x Baissa |
Baissa is a lower Cretaceous locality in Siberia, on the left bank of the Vitim River. The Zaza Formation sediments exposed at Baissa are represented mostly by sandstones, siltstones, marls and bituminous shales. The total thickness if the section...
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| x Batadombalena |
Batadombalena is one of world historic archeological site with evidence of 28,000 BC over, Balangoda People. Located 85 km from Colombo in Sri Lanka, a two hour drive from Colombo.
Batadombalena is one of the archeological sites located in Sri Lanka...
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| x Bear Gulch Limestone |
The Bear Gulch Limestone in Montana is a fossiliferous lagerstätte, a limestone layer laid down in the Mississippian epoch of the Carboniferous period, about 318 mya. This lens of limestone was laid down in a surrounding matrix that indicates a...
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| x Beaufort Group |
The Beaufort Group is the third of the main subdivisions of the Karoo Supergroup of geological strata in Southern Africa. It follows conformably after the Ecca Group and consists essentially of sandstones and shales, deposited in the Karoo Basin...
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| x Belilena |
Belilena is the famous largest cave in Sri Lanka. It is located 8km from the town of Kitulgala. It holds evidence of a lost generation of Sri Lanka 12,000 years old; then this cave belonged to the Balangoda People, described as Homo sapiens...
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| x The Bendricks, Vale of Glamorgan |
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The Bendricks is a stretch of coastline and an important paleontological site in the Vale of Glamorgan in south Wales located along the northern coast of the Bristol Channel between Barry and Sully at 51°23′47″N 03°14′42″W / 51.39639°N 3.245°W /...
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| x Big Bone Lick State Park |
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Big Bone Lick State Park is located at Big Bone in Boone County, Kentucky. It is located on Beaver Road and between the communities of Beaverlick and Rabbit Hash. The name of the park comes from the Pleistocene megafauna fossils found there. The...
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| x Blisworth Limestone |
The Blisworth Limestone is a stratum of limestone of the Bathonian stage, found in the Jurassic ridge which extends north and south through England. It was laid down in the shallows of the Jurassic sea and is part of the more widely defined Great...
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| x Bolca |
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Bolca is a village in the Veneto, on the southern margin of the Italian Alps. It is a frazione of the comune of Vestenanova, in the province of Verona. The area is famous for the marine fossils from the lagerstätte of Monte Bolca. It was one of the...
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| x Bone Cabin Quarry |
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Bone Cabin Quarry lies approximately fifteen miles north of Laramie, Wyoming near historic Como Bluff. During the summer of 1897 Walter W. Granger, a paleontologist from the American Museum of Natural History, came upon a hillside littered with...
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| x Bugti Hills |
Bugti Hills are a range of hills in eastern Balochistan, Pakistan. It includes the tribal tract called Bugti country.
30 million years ago the Haplorrhinies: Bugtipithecus inexpectans, Phileosimias kamali and Phileosimias brahuiorum, similar to...
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| x Bullock Creek |
The Bullock Creek Fossil site is one of three known vertebrate fossil sites in the Australia's Northern Territory, along with the Alcoota Fossil Beds on Alcoota Station and the Kangaroo Well site on Deep Well Station. It is located about 550km south...
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| x Burgess Shale |
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The Burgess Shale Formation — located in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia — is one of the world's most celebrated fossil fields, and the best of its kind. It is famous for the exceptional preservation of the soft parts of its fossils. It is...
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| x Canowindra |
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Canowindra (pronounced /kəˈnaʊndrə/) is an historic township located near Cowra in the central west of New South Wales, Australia in Cabonne Shire. Canowindra is on the Belubula River. The curving main street, Gaskill Street, is partly an urban...
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| x Clarkia fossil beds |
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The Clarkia fossil beds (also known locally as the Fossil Bowl) is a Miocene lagerstätte located near Clarkia, Idaho.
The fossil beds were laid down in a lake roughly 15 million years ago, when a drainage basin was dammed by the flood basalts of the...
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| x Cleveland Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry |
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The Cleveland Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry National Natural Landmark, located in The San Rafael Swell, near Cleveland, Utah contains the densest concentration of Jurassic dinosaur fossils ever found, Well over 15,000 bones have been excavated from this...
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| x Coon Creek Formation |
The Coon Creek Formation is a geologic formation located in western Tennessee and extreme northeast Mississippi. It is a sedimentary sandy marl deposit, Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) in age, about 73 million years old. The formation is known for...
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| x Curio Bay |
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Located near the southern end of New Zealand's South Island, Curio Bay is a coastal embayment best known as the site of a petrified forest some 180 million years old. It also hosts a yellow-eyed penguin colony, arguably the rarest of penguin species...
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| x Dinosaur State Park and Arboretum |
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Dinosaur State Park and Arboretum is a unique 63-acre (250,000 m) state park located 20 minutes south of Hartford at 400 West Street, Rocky Hill, Connecticut, USA. It contains one of the largest dinosaur track sites in North America, with a fine...
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| x Dominican amber |
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Dominican amber is amber from the Dominican Republic. Resin from the extinct species Hymenaea protera is the source of Dominican amber and probably of most amber found in the tropics.
Dominican amber differentiates itself from Baltic amber by being...
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| x Doushantuo Formation |
The Doushantuo Formation (Chinese: 陡山沱; pinyin: dǒu shān tuó) is a lagerstätte in Guizhou Province, China that is notable for being one of the oldest fossil beds to contain highly preserved fossils. The formation is of particular interest because it...
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| x Ediacara Hills |
Ediacara Hills are a range of low hills in the northern part of the Flinders Ranges of South Australia, around 650 km north of Adelaide. The area has many old copper and silver mines from mining activity in the late 19th century. The hills also...
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| x Emu Bay shale |
The Emu Bay Shale is a geological formation in Emu Bay, South Australia, containing a major Konservat-Lagerstätten (fossil beds with soft tissue preservation). It is one of two in the world containing Redlichiidan trilobites. The Australian's Emu...
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| x Fa Hien Cave |
Fa Hien Cave is a cave in the district of Kalutara, Western Province, Sri Lanka, named after the Buddhist monk Faxian (Wade-Giles: Fa Hien). The cave is important for the Late Pleistocene human skeletal remains discovered there in the 1960s and...
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| x Falls of the Ohio State Park |
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Falls of the Ohio State Park is a state park in Indiana. It is located on the banks of the Ohio River at Clarksville, Indiana, across from Louisville, Kentucky.
The park is part of the Falls of the Ohio National Wildlife Conservation Area. The main...
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| x Flaming Cliffs |
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The Flaming Cliffs site, really Bayanzag (Mongolian: Баянзаг, rich in saxaul or Mongolian: Улаан Эрэг red cliffs), is a region of the Gobi Desert in the Ömnögovi Province of Mongolia, in which important fossil finds have been made. It was given this...
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| x Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument |
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Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument is a national monument noted for its fossils in Teller County, Colorado, United States. It is located in a mountain valley just west of Pikes Peak and holds spectacular remnants of prehistoric life.
The...
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| x Fortune Head |
Fortune Head is a headland located about 1.6 km from the town of Fortune on the Burin Peninsula, southeastern Newfoundland.
A 410 m thick section of rock along its cliffs is designated the Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (or GSSP)...
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| x Fossil Grove |
The Fossil Grove is located within Victoria Park, Glasgow, Scotland. It was discovered in 1887 and contains the fossilised stumps of eleven extinct Lepidodendron trees, which are sometimes described as "giant club mosses" but they may be more...
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| x Frenchman Formation |
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The Frenchman Formation is a division of Upper Cretaceous rocks found in Saskatchewan, Canada. More accurately described as Late Maastrichtian, these rocks contain the youngest of dinosaur genera, much like the Hell Creek Formation in the United...
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| x Fur Formation |
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The Fur Formation is a marine deposit approximately 60 meters thick consisting of diatoms and clay minerals (Mo-clay). It is known for its abundant fossil fish, insects, reptiles, birds and plants. The Fur Formation was deposited just above the...
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| x Gadoufaoua |
Gadoufaoua (Touareg for “the place where camels fear to go”) is a site in the Tenere desert of Niger known for its extensive fossil graveyard, where remains of Sarcosuchus imperator, popularly known as SuperCroc, have been found (by Paul Sereno in...
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| x Garden Park, Colorado |
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Garden Park, in southcentral Colorado, is known for its Jurassic dinosaurs and the role the specimens played in the infamous bone wars of the late 1800s. Located 10 km (6 miles) north of Cañon City, Colorado, the name originates from the area...
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| x Gilboa fossil forest |
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Gilboa Fossil Forest, New York, USA, is cited as home to the Earth's oldest forest. Located near the Gilboa Dam in Schoharie County, New York, the region is home to tree trunks from the Devonian Period, roughly 380 million years old. The fossils,...
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| x Godavaya |
Godavaya or Godawaya is a small fishing hamlet located at the mouth of the Walawe river, between Ambalantota and Hambantota in the Hambantota District in southern Sri Lanka.
It received its name, originally Goda Pavata Pattana or Gota Pabbata...
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| x Gray Fossil Site |
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The Gray Fossil Site is a Late Miocene-epoch assemblage of fossils located near the unincorporated town of Gray in Washington County, Northeast Tennessee, and dates back 4.5 to 7 million years BCE). The Gray Fossil Site was discovered by geologists...
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| x Green Point, Newfoundland |
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Green Point is located 12 km north of the town of Rocky Harbour in Gros Morne National Park, on the west coast of Newfoundland. It is the home to a small summer fishing community and a drive-in campground. In 2000, Green Point was designated the...
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| x Green River Formation |
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The Green River Formation is an Eocene geologic formation that records the sedimentation in a group of intermountain lakes. The sediments are deposited in very fine layers, a dark layer during the growing season and a light-hue inorganic layer in...
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| x Guimarota |
Guimarota is a disused coal mine that contains a diverse array of fossil animals and plants from the Upper Jurassic, Kimmeridgian period. It is located in central Portugal, near the town of Leiria.
The locality was extensively worked by...
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| x Gunflint Chert |
The Gunflint chert (1.88 Ga) is a sequence of banded iron formation rocks that are exposed in the Gunflint Range of northern Minnesota and western Ontario along the north shore of Lake Superior. The black layers in the sequence contain microfossils...
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| x Hamilton Quarry |
Hamilton Quarry is a fossil lagerstätte near Hamilton, Kansas, United States. It has a diverse assemblage of unusually well-preserved marine, euryhaline, freshwater, flying, and terrestrial fossils (invertebrates, vertebrates, and plants). This...
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| x Hanksville-Burpee Quarry |
Hanksville-Burpee Quarry is the name given a paleontological excavation site approximately 150 feet (46 m) wide by 600 feet (180 m) long near Hanksville, Utah where scientists have found a large mix of remains of sauropods, trees, freshwater clams,...
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| x Hell Creek Formation |
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The Hell Creek Formation is an intensely-studied division of Upper Cretaceous to lower Paleocene rocks in North America, named for exposures studied along Hell Creek, near Jordan, Montana.
The Hell Creek Formation occurs in Montana and portions of...
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| x Hudson-Meng Bison Kill |
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The Hudson-Meng Bison Kill site is located in the Oglala National Grassland of western Nebraska northwest of Crawford. It was originally excavated by Dr. Larry Agenbroad in the 1970's. The excavation was over 400 square meters and it was considered...
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| x Jiufotang Formation |
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The Jiufotang Formation is an Early Cretaceous geological formation in Chaoyang, Liaoning which has yielded fossils of feathered dinosaurs, primitive birds, pterosaurs, and other organisms. (see Jehol Biota). It is a member of the Jehol group. The...
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| x John Day Fossil Beds National Monument |
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John Day Fossil Beds National Monument is a 14,000-acre (5,700 ha) park in eastern Oregon. Located within the John Day River Basin, this U.S. National Monument is world renowned for its well preserved, remarkably complete record of fossil plants and...
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| x Kaili Formation |
The Kaili Formation named for nearby city of Kaili in the Guizhou province of southwest China, the Kaili formation is more than 200 meters thick with boundaries dated from the Lower–Middle Cambrian boundary to the early Middle Cambrian (~513 to 506...
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| x Karoo Supergroup |
The Karoo Supergroup is the largest stratigraphic unit in Southern Africa, covering almost two thirds of the present land surface, including central Cape Province, almost all of Orange Free State, western Natal, much of south-east Transvaal, Zambia,...
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| x Koobi Fora | KNM ER 992 |
Koobi Fora refers primarily to a region around Koobi Fora Ridge, located on the eastern shore of Lake Turkana in the territory of the nomadic Gabbra people. According to the National Museums of Kenya, the name comes from the Gabbra language:
The...
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| x Koro Toro |
Koro Toro is an anthropological and an archaeological site located in southern Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti Region in Chad. It is known for the discovery of the Australopithecus bahrelghazali fossil hominin that was first discovered in January 1995.
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| x Kromdraai fossil site |
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Kromdraai is a fossil-bearing breccia filled cave located about 2 km east of the well known South African hominid-bearing site of Sterkfontein and about 45 km Northwest of the City of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is situated within the Cradle of...
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| x La Brea Tar Pits |
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The La Brea Tar Pits (or Rancho La Brea Tar Pits) are a famous cluster of tar pits around which Hancock Park was formed, in the urban heart of Los Angeles. Asphalt or tar (brea in Spanish) has seeped up from the ground in this area for tens of...
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