Re: Official State Dinosaurs

[John Schneiderman <dino@revelation.unomaha.edu>]

update: Offical State Fossils (6-6-97)<--4:00 pm
 
Alabama         1984  Basilosaurus cetoides [formerly Zeuglodon cetoides]
                      (Eocene archaeocete whale)
Alaska          1986  Mammuthus primigenius (Woolly Mammoth)
Arizona         1986  Araucarioxylon arizonicum (petrified wood)
California      1973  Smilodon californicus (Sabertooth Cat)
Colorado        1991 *Stegosaurus stenops
                 ??  *Ceratosaurus (official city fossil of Fruita,
                      Colorado)
Connecticut     1991 *Eubrontes giganteus (Theropod footprints)
Georgia         1976  shark tooth
Idaho           1988  Hagerman horse fossil
Illinois        1990  Tullimonstrum gregarium (Tully Monster)
Louisiana       1976  petrified Palmwood
Maine           1985  Pertica quadrifaria
Maryland        1984  Ecphora gardnerae (Miocene Gastropod)
                 --   [unofficial: *Astrodon (cf. Pleurocoelus)]
Massachusetts   1980 *Theropod footprints
Mississippi     1981  prehistoric whale
Missouri        1989  Delocrinus missouriensis (crinoid)
Montana         1985 *Maiasaura peeblesorum
Nebraska        1967  Mammoth
Nevada          1977  Shonisaurus (ichyhtosaur)
New Jersey      1991 *Hadrosaurus foulkii
New Mexico      1981 *Coelophysis bauri (Ghost Ranch Quarry)
New York        1984  Eurypterus remipes
North Dakota    1967  Teredo petrified wood
Ohio            1985  Isoletus maximus (trilobite - offical invertebrate
                      fossil)
                 --   Dunkelosteous (possible choice for vertebrate 
                      fossil)
Pennsylvania    1988  Phacops rana (trilobite)
South Dakota     ??  *Triceratops prorsus
Texas            --  *Pleurocoelus sp. [not official yet]
Utah            1988 *Allosaurus fragilis
Wisconsin       1985  Calymene celebra (trilobite)
Wyoming          ??  *Triceratops horridus
 
 
---John Schneiderman (dino@revelation.unomaha.edu)