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![]() ![]() Holly while making an excavation for a railroad. Discovered in 1848, the Mount Holly Mammoth consists of a partial mammoth found in a peat bog on Mt. The “Mount Holly mammoth” was designated as the state terrestrial fossil in 2014. Vermont has two state fossils designated, a state terrestrial (land) fossil and a state marine fossil. Year Designated: 1993 (State terrestrial fossil) & 2014 (State marine fossil) Whale (Delphinapterus leucas) & Mount Holly mammoth tooth and tusk No one can be certain which dinosaurs made the prints, but it's believed the largest (more than a foot in length) may have been made by Dilophosaurus, a 20-foot long meat-eating dinosaur.ĭelphinapterus leucas skeleton on display. The prints were first thought to be the marks of ancient birds. They are actually the first recorded dinosaur tracks being first discovered by a farmer's son in the early 1800's. The dinosaur tracks in the Connecticut Valley date from about 180 million to 210 million years ago. The Connecticut River Valley of Western Massachusetts is one of the world's richest sources of prehistoric dinosaur tracks. Ecphora was one of the first fossils from the New World to be illustrated in a scientific work in Europe. The shells are found as fossils in Maryland and Virginia. Ecphora gardnerae is a species of large carnivorous sea snail lived during the Miocene epoch, and became extinct more than five million years ago. ![]()
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