Fossil Fun

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

  • 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)