The Paleontology of North America

Jurassic Rocks in North America Today

Explore: the Jurassic in go
or world paleogeography of the go
Geologic activity since the Jurassic has covered up or removed many of these rocks around North America. Exposures of Jurassic rocks can be found in the Cascade Mountains, Sierra Nevada, Rocky Mountains, Texas, and states east of the Appalachian Mountains.

View modern exposures of rock from
each time period in North America:

Quaternary
Tertiary
Cretaceous
Jurassic
Triassic
Permian
Carboniferous
Devonian
Silurian
Ordovician
Cambrian
Precambrian

Jurassic Fossils
Fossil photos from Jurassic

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