LIST OF U.S. STATE FOSSILS

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Though every state in the United States has a State Bird and a State Flower, not every state in the United States has a 'State Fossil'.
State fossils tend to be quite dramatic. California has chosen the Pleistocene saber-toothed cat, ''Smilodon fatalis'' familiar from the La Brea Tar Pits, and Alaska has the Woolly mammoth, ''Mammuthus primigenius''. Of course there are plenty of dinosaurs (Colorado's Stegosaurus, New Jersey's duck-bill ''Hadrosaurus foulki'' or Montana's ''Maiasaura peeblesorum'') and even sets of dinosaur footprints (both Connecticut and Massachusetts). Nevada recalls its days as beachfront property with a Triassic Ichthyosaur, ''Shonisaurus popularis.'' Idaho has chosen an early horse, ''Equus simplicidens.'' Alabama and Mississippi have a pair of Eocene archaeocete whales, and Vermont has the most recent fossil, Charlotte, the Vermont Whale, a Beluga whale (''Delphinapterus leucas'') from an arm of the sea that extended into Pleistocene Vermont. Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Ohio are represented by trilobites. New York has the less-familiar Eurypterid, and Maine has gone out on a limb with an early vascular plant from the Devonian, ''Pertica quadrifaria''.
Some of the State Fossils are a little generic, like Georgia's unspecified shark's tooth, but Illinois is represented by the unique and mysterious Tully Monster ''Tullimonstrum gregarium'' from the Carboniferous swamplands.

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List of State Fossils

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List of State Fossils

State	Age	Common name	Binomial nomenclature	Image	Year & Citation
Alabama	Eocene	Whale	''Basilosaurus cetoides''		1984[1]
Alaska	Pleistocene	woolly mammoth	''Mammuthus primigenius''
Arizona	Triassic	petrified wood	''Araucarioxylon arizonicum''
Arkansas
California	Pleistocene	saber-toothed cat	''Smilodon fatalis''
Colorado	Jurassic	stegosaurus	''Stegosaurus stenops''		1982
Connecticut	Jurassic	dinosaur tracks	''Eubrontes giganteus''
Delaware	Cretaceous	belemnite	''Belemnitella americana''
District of Columbia			''Capitalsaurus'' (state dinosaur)
Florida	Eocene	agatized coral (state stone)	Cnidaria, Anthozoa
Georgia	Cretaceous–Miocene	shark tooth	undetermined
Hawaii
Idaho	Pliocene	horse	''Equus simplicidens''
Illinois	Pennsylvanian	Tully Monster	''Tullimonstrum gregarium''
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky	Ordovician–Pennsylvanian	brachiopod	undetermined	thumb	1986[2]
Louisiana	Oligocene	petrified palmwood	undetermined
Maine	Devonian	plant	''Pertica quadrifaria''
Maryland	Miocene	murex snail / gastropod	''Ecphora gardnerae gardnerae''
Massachusetts	Jurassic	dinosaur tracks	undetermined
Michigan	Holocene	mastodon	''Mammut americanum''
Minnesota	Pleistocene	giant beaver	''Castoroides ohioensis'' (unofficial)
Mississippi	Eocene	whales	''Basilosaurus'' and ''Zygorhiza''
Missouri	Pennsylvanian	crinoid	''Delocrinus missouriensis''		1989
Montana	Cretaceous	duck-billed dinosaur	''Maiasaura peeblesorum''
Nebraska	Pleistocene	woolly mammoth Columbian mammoth Imperial mammoth	''Mammuthus primigenius'' ''Mammuthus columbi'' ''Mammuthus imperator''
Nevada	Triassic	ichthyosaur	''Shonisaurus popularis''
New Hampshire
New Jersey	Cretaceous	duck-billed dinosaur	''Hadrosaurus foulkii''
New Mexico	Triassic	theropod dinosaur	''Coelophysis bauri''
New York	Silurian	eurypterid	''Eurypterus remipes''		1984
North Carolina
North Dakota	Paleocene	shipworm-bored petrified wood	''Teredo'' petrified wood
Ohio	Ordovician	trilobite	''Isotelus''		1985
Oklahoma	Jurassic	Allosaurid dinosaur	''Saurophaganax maximus''
Oregon	Eocene	Dawn redwood	''Metasequoia''		2005
Pennsylvania	Devonian	trilobite	''Phacops rana''		1988
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota	Cretaceous	ceratopsid dinosaur	''Triceratops''
Tennessee	Cretaceous	bivalve	''Pterotrigonia thoracica''
Texas			''Pleurocoelus'' (state dinosaur)
Utah	Jurassic	carnosaurian dinosaur	''Allosaurus''		1988
Vermont	Pleistocene	beluga whale	''Delphinapterus leucas''		1993
Virginia	Caenozoic	bivalve	''Chesapecten jeffersonius''		1993
Washington	Pleistocene	Columbian mammoth	''Mammuthus columbi''[3]		1998
West Virginia	Mississippian	fossil coral (state gem)	undetermined
Wisconsin	Ordovician–Silurian	trilobite	''Calymene celebra''	http://www.weekstrilobites.com/Pics/lggravi1a.jpg	1985
Wyoming	Eocene	fish	''Knightia''		1987

See also

★ List of U.S. state dinosaurs

★ List of U.S. state minerals, rocks, and gemstones

★ Lists of U.S. state insignia

References

1. Official State of Alabama Fossil
2. Kentucky State Symbols
3. http://www1.leg.wa.gov/Legislature/StateSymbols/ WA State Symbols

External link

★ www.statefossils.com: a complete list of U.S. state fossils, with informative details