The Paleontology of North America

The Tertiary in Illinois, US

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See exposures in this state from the:

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

Tertiary Fossils

No slide show is available for the Tertiary in Illinois.

Paleontology and geology

Deposits of Tertiary age rocks are present only in a small region in southernmost Illinois, difficult to see on this map. So far, they have yielded little fossil material.

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