State | Age | Common name | Binomial nomenclature | Image | Year & Citation |
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Alabama | Eocene | Basilosaurus whale |
Basilosaurus cetoides |
1984[1] | |
Alaska | Pleistocene | Woolly Mammoth | Mammuthus primigenius |
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Arizona | Triassic | petrified wood |
Araucarioxylon arizonicum |
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California | Pleistocene | Saber-toothed cat |
Smilodon fatalis |
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Colorado | Jurassic | Stegosaurus | Stegosaurus stenops |
1982 | |
Connecticut | Jurassic | dinosaur tracks |
Eubrontes giganteus |
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Delaware | Cretaceous | Belemnite | Belemnitella americana |
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Washington, D.C. |
Cretaceous | “Capitalsaurus”
(state dinosaur) |
nomen nudum only |
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Florida | Eocene | agatized coral (state stone) |
Cnidaria, Anthozoa |
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Georgia | Cretaceous–
Miocene |
shark tooth | undetermined | ||
Idaho | Pliocene | Hagerman horse | Equus simplicidens |
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Illinois | Pennsylvanian | Tully Monster | Tullimonstrum gregarium |
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Kentucky | Ordovician–
Pennsylvanian |
brachiopod | undetermined | 1986[2] | |
Louisiana | Oligocene | petrified palmwood | Palmoxylon | ||
Maine | Devonian | Pertica plant | Pertica quadrifaria |
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Maryland | Miocene | murex snail / gastropod |
Ecphora gardnerae gardnerae |
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Massachusetts | Jurassic | dinosaur tracks |
undetermined | ||
Michigan | Holocene | American mastodon |
Mammut americanum |
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Mississippi | Eocene | Basilosaurus
and Zygorhiza whales |
Basilosaurus cetoides Zygorhiza kochii |
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Missouri | Pennsylvanian | Sea lily | Delocrinus missouriensis |
1989 | |
Montana | Cretaceous | Duck-billed dinosaur |
Maiasaura peeblesorum |
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Nebraska | Pleistocene | Woolly Mammoth
Columbian Mammoth Imperial |
Mammuthus primigenius Mammuthus columbi Mammuthus imperator |
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Nevada | Triassic | Shonisaurus | Shonisaurus popularis |
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New Jersey |
Cretaceous | duck-billed dinosaur |
Hadrosaurus foulkii |
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New Mexico |
Triassic | Coelophysis | Coelophysis bauri |
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New York | Silurian | sea scorpion | Eurypterus remipes | 1984 | |
North Dakota |
Paleocene | shipworm-bored
petrified wood |
Teredo petrified wood |
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Ohio | Ordovician | trilobite | Isotelus maximus |
1985 | |
Oklahoma | Jurassic | Saurophaganax | Saurophaganax maximus |
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Oregon | Eocene | Dawn redwood |
Metasequoia
occidentalis |
2005 | |
Pennsylvania | Devonian | trilobite | Phacops rana |
1988 | |
South Dakota |
Cretaceous | Triceratops | Triceratops horridus |
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Tennessee | Cretaceous | bivalve | Pterotrigonia thoracica |
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Texas | Cretaceous | Pleurocoelus
(state dinosaur) |
Pleurocoelus nanus |
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Utah | Jurassic | Allosaurus | Allosaurus fragilis |
1988[3] | |
Vermont | Pleistocene | Beluga whale |
Delphinapterus leucas |
1993 | |
Virginia | Caenozoic | scallop | Chesapecten jeffersonius |
1993 | |
Washington | Pleistocene | Columbian Mammoth |
Mammuthus columbi |
1998[4] | |
West Virginia |
Late Pleistocene |
Jefferson’s ground sloth |
Megalonyx jeffersonii |
2008[5] | |
Wisconsin | Ordovician–
Silurian |
trilobite | Calymene celebra |
1985 | |
Wyoming | Eocene | Knightia | Knightia | 1987 |