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Araucaria - Fossil Cones from Argentina

A series of volcanic eruptions buried the Cerro Cuadrado forest approximately 160 million years ago during the Middle of the Jurassic period at a time when the A. mirabilis conifer’s cones were reaching maturity.

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Triarthrus eatoni and the OTB

Discovered in 1892 by William S. Valiant and made famous by the work of Charles Emerson Beecher, the BTB (Beecher's Trilobite Bed) is located in a small quarry outside of Rome, New York.

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