๐ŸŒItโ€™s #Minnesota #FossilFriday๐Ÿ‚๐Ÿฆฅ๐Ÿด๐Ÿช๐ŸŸ๐Ÿƒ Believe it or not, these snail, clam, fish and ammonite fossils from the Cretaceous period are from Minnesota!

Minnesotaโ€™s Iron Range lies below what is know as the Coleraine Formation, the 85 to 95-million-year-old shoreline of the Western Interior Seaway, which crossed the North American for nearly 100 million years.

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Paleontology

Welcome to the Hill Annex Paleontology Project Mission: Examination of the Cretaceous sediments of Minnesota through new discovery, analysis of existing data, and the documentation of known collections.  Provide public ...

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