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Named for. Temblor Ranch, McKittrick district, Kern County. Named by. Anderson. Year defined. 1905. The Temblor Formation is a geologic formation in California. It preserves fossils dating back from the Late Oligocene to the Middle Miocene of the Neogene period. It is notable for the famous Sharktooth Hill deposit (otherwise known as Ernst Quarry).
The museum was founded in 1995. The museum was centered on the Bob and Mary Ernst Collection of Miocene fossils from Shark Tooth Hill (in Kern County). It is the largest collection of Miocene fossils from that location. Originally the museum was housed out of a small space in the California Living Museum (CALM).
Sharktooth Peak is a summit located in Fresno County, California. It is situated on Silver Divide in the Sierra Nevada range. It is set in the John Muir Wilderness , one mile (1.6 km) north-northwest of line parent Silver Peak , and 11 miles (18 km) south-southwest of the town of Mammoth Lakes .
Sharktooth Mountain is a 2,668-metre (8,753 ft) mountain in the Stikine Ranges of the Northern Interior of British Columbia, Canada, located between the Cassiar and Dall Rivers. [3] It has a prominence of 1,653 m, created by the pass at the Frog Lakes between the Pitman River, a tributary of the Stikine and the Frog River, a tributary of the ...
A Pennsylvania 8-year-old on vacation in SC found a huge fossilized tooth from a long-extinct shark species.
A couple of tourists poking around in the sand found a prehistoric shark tooth the size of a human hand at Cape Lookout National Seashore, according to the National Park Service.. The tooth is all ...
Type species. † Pelagiarctos thomasi. Barnes, 1988. Pelagiarctos was a genus of walrus that lived during the Mid Miocene, approx. 13-15 mya. Its remains have been found in the Sharktooth Hill Bonebed, in Kern County, California. It was originally described as an Otariidae, though it is now usually considered to be a basal Odobenidae .
A massive shark tooth scooped from the central Pacific Ocean floor is likely millions of years old, researchers said. The tooth was found a little more than 10,000 feet deep “on an unnamed ...