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There is nothing that will disappoint a kid more than telling them that they can't go outside their door and find a dinosaur fossil in their backyard. No one has ever found a dinosaur fossil anywhere in Michigan. Our fossils are either very old or very young. We have many fossils that are younger than the retreat of the last glacier that covered Michigan (about 11 thousand years ago). Our fossils of mammoths and mastodons are from this time period. Then there is a long time period for which…

a fossil specimen of the scleractinian coral Solenastrea hyades (Dana, 1846), showing nicely radiating septa in each corallite; from the Lower Pleistocene Croatan Formation of eastern North Carolina, USA; photo by James St. John Eastern North Carolina, Cnidaria, Fossil Hunting, Rocks And Fossils, Dinosaur Fossils, Love Rocks, Fossil Coral, Prehistoric Animals, Rocks And Gems

a fossil specimen of the scleractinian coral Solenastrea hyades (Dana, 1846), showing nicely radiating septa in each corallite; from the Lower Pleistocene Croatan Formation of eastern North Carolina, USA; photo by James St. John

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