Fun Activities, Jokes, State Fossils, and more!

 

Fossil Jokes:

Q:Why can't you hear a pterosaur going to the bathroom?

A: The P is silent

 

Q: Why did the dinosaur cross the road?

A: The chicken hadn't evolved yet!

 

Q: What do you get when two dinosaurs collide? 

A: A tyrannosaurus wreck

 

Q: Which dinosaur won the spelling bee?

A: A Thesaurus 

 

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State Fossils

Alabama

• Basilosaurus cetoides (Eocene age, whale)

Alaska

• Mammuthus primigenius (Pleistocene age, woolly mammoth)

Arizona

• Araucarioxylon arizonicum (Triassic age, wood)

California

• Smilodon californicus (Pleistocene age, sabertooth cat)

Colorado

• Stegosaurus stenops (Jurassic age, plated dinosaur)

Connecticut

• Eubrontes giganteus (Jurassic age, dinosaur track)

Delaware

• Belemnitella americana (Cretaceous age, belemnite)

Florida

• Official state stone: "agatized coral" (Oligocene-Miocene age, coral)

• Proposed state fossil (unofficial): "Sea Biscuit", Eupatagus antillarum (Eocene age)

Georgia

• Shark tooth (Cretaceous - Miocene age, shark tooth)

Idaho

• Equus simplicidens (Pliocene age, horse)

Illinois

• Tullimonstrum gregarium (Pennsylvanian age, "Tully Monster")

Kentucky

• Brachiopod (Ordovician - Mississippian age, shellfish)

Louisiana

• Petrified palm wood (Oligocene age, palm)

Maine

• Pertica quadrifaria (Devonian age, plant)

Maryland

• Ecphora gardnerae gardnerae (Miocene age, snail)
• Astrodon johnstoni (Cretaceous age, sauropod dinosaur)

Massachusetts

• Dinosaur tracks (Jurassic age, trace fossil — tracks)

Michigan

• Mamut americanum (Pliocene - Pleistocene age, mastodon)
• Petoskey Stone (Devonian age, coral)

Mississippi

• Basilosaurus (Eocene age, whale)
• Zygorhiza (Eocene age, whale)
• Petrified wood (Oligocene age, wood)

Missouri

•  Delocrinus missouriensis (Pennsylvanian age, crinoid)
•  Hypsibema missouriense (Cretaceous age, dinosaur)

Montana

• Maiasaura peeblesorum (Cretaceous age, duckbilled dinosaur)

Nebraska

•  Archidiskodon imperator (Pleistocene age, mammoth)
•  Mammoth (Pleistocene age, mammoth)

Nevada

• Shonisaurus popularis (Triassic age, ichthyosaur)

New Jersey

• Hadrosaurus foulkii (Cretaceous age, duckbilled dinosaur)

New Mexico

• Coelophysis bauri (Triassic age, theropod dinosaur)

New York

• Eurypterus remipes (Silurian age, sea scorpion)

North Dakota

• Teredo petrified wood (Paleocene age, shipworm-bored wood)

Ohio

• Isotelus (Ordovician age, trilobite)

Oklahoma

• Saurophaganax maximus (Jurassic age, theropod dinosaur)

Oregon

• Metasequoia (Miocene age, conifer leaf)

Pennsylvania

• Phacops rana (Devonian age, trilobite)

South Dakota

• Triceratops (Cretaceous age, horned dinosaur)

Tennessee

• Pterotrigonia thoracica (Cretaceous age, bivalve)

Texas

•  Astrodon (Cretaceous age, sauropod dinosaur)
•  Petrified palm wood (Oligocene age, palm wood)

Utah

• Allosaurus (Jurassic age, theropod dinosaur)

Vermont

• Delphinapterus leucas (Pleistocene age, white beluga whale)

Viginia

• Chesapecten jeffersonius (Miocene - Pliocene age, bivalve)

Washington

•  Mammuthus columbi (Pleistocene age, mammoth)
•  Petrified wood (Miocene age, wood)

Washington, D.C.

• "Capitalsaurus" (Cretaceous age, undetermined theropod dinosaur)

West Virginia

•  Megalonyx jeffersoni (Pleistocene age, ground sloth)
•  Fossil coral (Mississippian age, coral)

Wisconsin

• Calymene celebra (Ordovician - Silurian age, trilobite)

Wyoming

•  Knightia (Eocene age, fish)
•  Triceratops (Cretaceous age, horned dinosaur)