Oldest East Coast mammals.Oldest East Coast mammals When construction workers in South Carolina South Carolina, state of the SE United States. It is bordered by North Carolina (N), the Atlantic Ocean (SE), and Georgia (SW). Facts and Figures Area, 31,055 sq mi (80,432 sq km). Pop. (2000) 4,012,012, a 15. recently dug a new hole for a hydroelectric turbine, they unearthed Unearthed is the name of a Triple J project to find and "dig up" (hence the name) hidden talent in regional Australia. Unearthed has had three incarnations - they first visited each region of Australia where Triple J had a transmitter - 41 regions in all. evidence of the oldest mammals yet discovered on the East Coast of the United States The "Eastern Seaboard," or "Atlantic Seaboard" are terms referring to the easternmost coastal states in the United States. They touch the Atlantic Ocean and stretch up to Canada. , reports paleontologist Robert M. Schoch Robert M. Schoch is an American geologist and academic with a special interest in pyramid monuments around the world. He received his Ph.D. in geology and geophysics from Yale in 1983, and as of 1990 is a tenured professor of general studies at Boston University. of Boston University. Amateur collectors picking through the excavation near St. Stephen, S.C., found five teeth and a broken skull bone. Four of the specimens apparently come from four different German-shepherd-sized, hairy creatures, and the other two come from squirrel-sized mammals, Schoch says. All of them lived about 60 million years ago. "I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. of any other Paleocene mammals in the Southeast," Schoch says. Until now, the earliest known mammals from this area dated from the late Eocene, about 38 million years ago, Schoch says. One of the larger teeth appears to have come from a previously unknown dog-sized mammal, which Schoch has named Mingotherium holtae, after the Black Mingo fossil layer, where the tooth was found. "We had suspected before this that there must have been mammals on the East Coast in the Paleocene," Schoch says. "This is opening up a window on what they were." |
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