Portal:Paleontology in the United States

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Paleontology in the United States refers to research into the fossilized remains of prehistoric occurring within or conducted by people from the United States."Paleontology in the United States," in Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Excerpt from an illustration of Mastodon fossils by Rembrandt Peale. — The American mastodon was one of the first major fossil discoveries in the United States. Remains preserved at Big Bone Lick, Kentucky were studied by eminent naturalists and statesmen like Thomas Jefferson.

Arkansas

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"North American Plesiosaurs: Elasmosaurus, Cimoliasaurus, and Polycotylus" (1906) by Samuel Wendell Williston in American Journal of Science XXI.

Colorado

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"The Great Cemetery in Colorado" in Popular Science Monthly, 4 (February 1874)
"New Order of Extinct Reptilia (Stegosauria) from the Jurassic of the Rocky Mountains" (1877) by O. C. Marsh.
"Notice of new Dinosaurian Reptiles from the Jurassic formation" (1877) by O. C. Marsh.

Connecticut

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"Footprints in the Rocks" by Charles Henry Hitchcock in Popular Science Monthly, 3 (August 1873)

Illinois

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Pennsylvanian invertebrates of the Mazon Creek Area, Illinois: Eurypterida, 1963 by Erik Norman Kjellesvig-Waering.

Kansas

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"On some reptilian remains" by Edward Drinker Cope in the American Journal of Science 1869
"North American Plesiosaurs: Elasmosaurus, Cimoliasaurus, and Polycotylus" (1906) by Samuel Wendell Williston in American Journal of Science XXI.

Massachusetts

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"Footprints in the Rocks" by Charles Henry Hitchcock in Popular Science Monthly, 3 (August 1873)
"A Gigantic Relic" by Hezekiah Butterworth in Popular Science Monthly, 5 (May 1874)

Michigan

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"Notice of the Remains of a Mastodon recently discovered in Michigan" (1864) by Alexander Winchell.
"Two Undescribed Specimens of Castoroides ohioensis Foster from Michigan" (1914) by Norman Asa Wood
"On a Nearly Complete Skull of Symbos cavifrons Leidy from Michigan" (1915) by Ermine Cowles Case
"Descriptions of Some New Species of Devonian Fossils" (1918) by Clinton R. Stauffer

Montana

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"Tyrannosaurus and Other Cretaceous Carnivorous Dinosaurs" (1905) by Henry Fairfield Osborn.
"North American Plesiosaurs: Elasmosaurus, Cimoliasaurus, and Polycotylus" (1906) by Samuel Wendell Williston in American Journal of Science XXI.

Nebraska

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"North American Plesiosaurs: Elasmosaurus, Cimoliasaurus, and Polycotylus" (1906) by Samuel Wendell Williston in American Journal of Science XXI.
Carboniferous Eurypterids of Nebraska, 1914 by Erwin Hinckly Barbour

New Jersey

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On some reptilian remains by Edward Drinker Cope in the American Journal of Science 1869
"A Mastodon in an Old Beater-Meadow" by Samuel Lockwood in Popular Science Monthly, 22 (January 1883)
"North American Plesiosaurs: Elasmosaurus, Cimoliasaurus, and Polycotylus" (1906) by Samuel Wendell Williston in American Journal of Science XXI.

New York

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"Description of a New Species of Trilobite", 1875 by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
"Notes on Ceraurus pleurexanthemus, Green", 1875 by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
"New Species of Trilobite from the Trenton Limestone at Trenton Falls, N. Y.", 1875 by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
Notice of the discovery of a Poecilopod in the Utica slate formation, 1882 by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
Description of a New Genus of the Order Eurypterida from the Utica Slate, 1882 by Charles Doolittle Walcott
The Eurypterida of New York, 1912 by John Mason Clarke and Rudolf Ruedemann.

Ohio

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Eurypterids of the Devonian Holland Quarry Shale of Ohio, 1961 by Erik Norman Kjellesvig-Waering

Wyoming

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"The Great Cemetery in Colorado" in Popular Science Monthly, 4 (February 1874)
"Principal Characters of American Jurassic Dinosaurs; Part VI, Restoration of Brontosaurus" (1878) by O. C. Marsh.
"Notice of Gigantic Horned Dinosauria from the Cretaceous" (1889) by O. C. Marsh.
"North American Plesiosaurs: Elasmosaurus, Cimoliasaurus, and Polycotylus" (1906) by Samuel Wendell Williston in American Journal of Science XXI.
"Notes on Osteology of Baptanodon. With a Description of a New Species" (1906) by Charles Whitney Gilmore in Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum