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Paleontology in Illinois : ウィキペディア英語版 | Paleontology in Illinois
Paleontology in Illinois refers to paleontological research occurring within or conducted by people from the U.S. state of Illinois. Scientists have found that Illinois was covered by a sea during the Paleozoic Era. Over time this sea was inhabited by animals including brachiopods, clams, corals, crinoids, sea snails, sponges, and trilobites. Fossils are common from the Ordovician through the Pennsylvanian. Illinois has a reputation for rocks bearing large numbers of trilobite fossils, often of very high preservational quality.〔 There is a gap in Illinois' geologic record from the Mesozoic to the Pleistocene. During the Ice Age, Illinois was subject to glacial activity. At the time the state was home to creatures like giant beavers, mammoths, mastodons, and stag mooses. Paleontology has a long history in the State of Illinois, stretching at least as far back as the 1850s, when the first Mazon Creek fossils were being found. Early in the ensuing 20th century a Silurian age fossil reef system was discovered in the state. In the 1950s Francis Tully discovered the "monster" that would later be named in his honor. The Pennsylvanian species ''Tullimonstrum gregarium'' ("Tully Monster") is the Illinois state fossil. It is one of the few officially designated state fossils that is endemic to the state it represents. ==Prehistory==
No Precambrian fossils are known from Illinois. As such, the state's fossil record does not begin until the Paleozoic.〔 Illinois was covered by a sea during the Paleozoic. Over time this sea would be inhabited by animals like brachiopods, clams, corals, crinoids, snails, sponges, trilobites.〔 500 million years ago, during the Cambrian, the seas of Illinois resembled those of the modern Bahamas.〔 At the time, Illinois was located near the equator.〔 Illinois was home to trilobites.〔 Cambrian trilobites left their remains in the state's north-central region.〔 In other areas of Illinois Cambrian trilobite fossils have only been found in core samples drilled from deeply buried rocks.〔
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