The Paleontology of North America

Fossil Gallery

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Plants

Invertebrates

Vertebrates

Protists

Bacteria

Fungi

Trace Fossils

Fossils through time:
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Quaternary
Tertiary
Cretaceous
Jurassic
Triassic
Permian
Carboniferous
Devonian
Silurian
Ordovician
Cambrian
Precambrian
Dates (mya)