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    The West Coast Fossil Park is a fossil park near Langebaanweg, Western Cape, South Africa, approximately 150 kilometres (93 mi) north of Cape Town. The...
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  • as well as a mousebird and a diving petrel. The West Coast Fossil Park includes displays of fossils found in a former phosphate mine. Brett Hendey, formally...
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  • West Coast Fossil Park, Langebaanweg, Western Cape There are two geological parks maintained by the Geological Survey of India: Shivalik Fossil Park,...
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    The Jean and Ric Edelman Fossil Park, located in Mantua Township, New Jersey, consists of a 66-million-year-old 6-inch (150 mm) bone bed set into a 65-acre...
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    documentary film Fossil collecting – Collecting fossils to study, collect or sell Fossil park Jurassic Coast – World Heritage Site on the coast of southern...
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    (14 mi) west of the town, as well as the West Coast Fossil park 25 km (16 mi) west from town, fall within town limits. Another important fossil locality...
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    Palaeonthropological Fossil Union Buildings Voortrekker Monument Waaihoek Wesleyan Mission Church Walter Sisulu Square West Coast Fossil Park Wonderwerk Cave...
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    flowers. The park also has a butterfly reserve, aquarium, aviary, terrarium and hatching center. The Fossil and Mo-clay Museum (Danish: Fossil- og Molermuseet)...
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    1994 for its extensive fossil record when the site was inscribed on the World Heritage List, along with Riversleigh. The park preserves 6 km2 of remnant...
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    mustelids (Mammalia, Carnivora, Mustelidae) from Langebaanweg fossil site (West Coast Fossil Park, South Africa, early Pliocene)". PeerJ. 8: e9221. doi:10...
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    Boskop Man Homo naledi Panthera shawi Vulpes skinneri Other Cradle of Humankind Planolites Scylacorhinus West Coast Fossil Park Waterloo Farm lagerstätte...
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    Alopecognathus (category Fossil taxa described in 1915)
    Boskop Man Homo naledi Panthera shawi Vulpes skinneri Other Cradle of Humankind Planolites Scylacorhinus West Coast Fossil Park Waterloo Farm lagerstätte...
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    classified in, for C. bauri, C. willistoni, and C. longicollis. An amateur fossil collector working for Cope, David Baldwin, had found the first remains of...
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    Mesosaurus (category Fossil taxa described in 1865)
    amniote-type fossil embryos of Mesosaurus in an advanced stage of development (i.e. fetuses) have been discovered in Uruguay and Brazil. These fossils are the...
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    mustelids (Mammalia, Carnivora, Mustelidae) from Langebaanweg fossil site (West Coast Fossil Park, South Africa, early Pliocene)". PeerJ. 8: e9221. doi:10...
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    platinum strike enters second day". Reuters. 15 May 2013. Guilbert, John M.; Park, Charles F. Jr. (1986). The Geology of Ore Deposits. New York: Freeman....
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  • (Salt River, Cape Town), 2010 Ratelgat, 2012 De Hel Forest, 2012 West Coast Fossil Park, 2012 (extension of existing site) Pinnacle Point, 2012 Saron Mission...
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    Ekorus (category Fossil taxa described in 2003)
    mustelids (Mammalia, Carnivora, Mustelidae) from Langebaanweg fossil site (West Coast Fossil Park, South Africa, early Pliocene)". PeerJ. 8: 9221. doi:10.7717/peerj...
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    national monument in 1944, and named Harrison's Park. The park is on the busy Main Reef Road, immediately west of Nasrec Road. In 1887 Cecil John Rhodes registered...
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    Leontosaurus (category Fossil taxa described in 1950)
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    "V. Researches on the structure, organization, and classification of the fossil reptilia.—III. On parts of the skeleton of a mammal from Triassic rocks...
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    Archaeopteris (category Fossil taxa described in 1871)
    index fossil, this tree is found in strata dating from the Upper Devonian to Lower Carboniferous (383 to 323 million years ago), the oldest fossils being...
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    River basin and managed by the National Park Service, the park is known for its well-preserved layers of fossil plants and mammals that lived in the region...
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    the Golden Gate Highlands National Park, situated on the Clarens Formation rocks. Other fossils found in the park include those of advanced cynodontia...
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  • Panthera shawi (category Fossil taxa described in 1948)
    mammals". Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 21 (I): 1–38. Ewer, R. (1956). "The fossil carnivora of the Transvaal Caves: Felinae". Proceedings of the Zoological...
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    but were discovered living off the coast of South Africa in 1938. The coelacanth was long considered a "living fossil" because scientists thought it was...
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    Lystrosaurus (category Fossil taxa described in 1870)
    vertebrates, accounting for as many as 95% of the total individuals in some fossil beds. Researchers have offered various hypotheses for why Lystrosaurus survived...
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  • Boskop Man Homo naledi Panthera shawi Vulpes skinneri Other Cradle of Humankind Planolites Scylacorhinus West Coast Fossil Park Waterloo Farm lagerstätte...
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