Re: Official State Dinosaurs (fwd)

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

update: Offical State Fossils (6-10-97)

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Alabama

1984  Basilosaurus cetoides [formerly Zeuglodon cetoides]
      (an Eocene archaeocete whale)
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Alaska

1986  Mammuthus primigenius (Woolly Mammoth)
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Arizona

1986  Araucarioxylon arizonicum (petrified wood)
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CALIFORNIA

1973  Official State Fossil  
      [Smilodon californicus] (California's Sabertooth Cat)
      note: S. californicus is invalid the name Smilodon fatalis should be
            used.
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Colorado

1991 *Stegosaurus stenops (an ornithischian dinosaur)

 ??  *Ceratosaurus [Ceratosaurus nasicornius] (a theropod dinosaur)
     (official city fossil of Fruita, Colorado)
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Connecticut

1991 *Eubrontes giganteus (theropod footprints)
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DELAWARE
 
 ??   Belemnitella americana (a late Cretaceous Cephalopod) 
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Georgia

1976  Carcharodon megalodon (sp?) (prehistoric shark tooth)
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Idaho

1988  Equus simplicidens (Hagerman horse fossil)
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Illinois

1990  Tullimonstrum gregarium (Tully Monster)
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IOWA

 --   [not official: crinoid]
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LOUISIANA

July 31, 1976   Official State Fossil
      petrified Palmwood (no specific species designated)
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MAINE

1985   Official State Fossil
      Pertica quadrifaria (fossil Devonian vascular plant)
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Maryland

1984  Ecphora gardnerae gardnerae [originally named: Ecphora quadricostata]
      (a Miocene gastropod)

 --   [unofficial: *Astrodon (cf. Pleurocoelus)] (a brachiosaurid 
      dinosaur)
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Massachusetts

1980 *(theropod footprints)
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Mississippi

1981  Zygorhiza kochi & Basilosaurus cetoides (Eocene
      Archaeocete cetaceans) prehistoric whale
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Missouri
 
June 16, 1989   Official State Fossil  
      Delocrinus missouriensis (a crinoid)
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Montana

1985 *Maiasaura peeblesorum (a hadrosaur dinosaur)
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NEBRASKA

March 1, 1967   Official State Fossil
      Mammoth [no specific species designated]
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NEVADA

1977   Official State Fossil
      Shonisaurus popularis (ichyhtosaur from Berlin, Nevada)
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NEW JERSEY

1991   Official State Fossil
     *Hadrosaurus foulkii (a hadrosaur dinosaur)
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New Mexico

1981 *Coelophysis [Coelophysis bauri] (a theropod dinosaur from the Ghost
      Ranch Quarry)
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NEW YORK

1984  Eurypterus remipes (eurypterid or 'sea scorpion')
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NORTH DAKOTA

1967   Official State Fossil
      Teredo petrified wood
      note: wood infested by boring clams of the genus Teredo (also
            called 'shipworms')
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OHIO

September 19, 1985   Official Invertebrate Fossil
      Isotelus maximus [=Isotelus gigas] (trilobite)

 --   Dunkleosteus (candidate for state vertebrate fossil)
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PENNSYLVANIA

December 5, 1988   Official State Fossil
      Phacops rana (trilobite)
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SOUTH DAKOTA

 ??  *Triceratops prorsus
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TEXAS

 --  *Pleurocoelus sp. (a brachiosaurid dinosaur)
     [not official yet]
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UTAH

1988   Official State Fossil
     *Allosaurus fragilis (a theropod dinosaur from the Cleveland-Lloyd
      Quarry)
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VERMONT

June 6, 1993   Official State Fossil
      Delphinapterus leucas (fossil Beluga whale)
      nickname: Charlotte (skeleton at the University of Vermont Perkins
                Geology Museum)
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Virginia

1993  Chesapecten jeffersonius (an extinct scallop)
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WISCONSIN

1985  Calymene celebra (trilobite)
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WYOMING

February 18, 1987   Official State Fossil
      Knightia (fossil fish from the Green River Formation)

March 18, 1994   Official Dinosaur Fossil
     *Triceratops [Triceratops horridus] (a ceratopian dinosaur)
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---John Schneiderman (dino@revelation.unomaha.edu)