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Re: Official State Dinosaurs
update: Offical State Fossils (6-9-97)
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)
Delaware ?? Belemnitella americana
Georgia 1976 Carcharodon megalodon (sp?) (prehistoric shark
tooth)
Idaho 1988 Equus simplicidens (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 (eurypterid)
North Dakota 1967 Teredo petrified wood
Ohio 1985 Isotelus maximus (trilobite - offical invertebrate
fossil)
-- Dunkleosteus (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 1994 *Triceratops horridus
---John Schneiderman (dino@revelation.unomaha.edu)