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Titanoboa cerrejonensis is an extinct giant snake known from Paleocene fossils found in the Cerrejon Formation of northeastern Colombia. Described in 2009 from vertebrae and other remains, it lived in a warm tropical wetland ecosystem several million years after the end-Cretaceous extinction. Body-s...
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Largest known snake with strong public appeal and paleoclimate significance; robust consensus importance.
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Thomas E. Williamson is an American paleontologist affiliated with the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. His research focuses extensively on the vertebrate faunas of the San Juan Basin in New Mexico, particularly regarding the Cretaceous and Paleocene epochs. Williamson has led excav...
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Highly regarded specialist in Late Cretaceous and Paleocene mammals, with important southwestern US discoveries and substantial contributions to mammalian evolutionary history.
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Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah Wilderness is a 6,565-acre BLM wilderness in San Juan County, New Mexico, adjacent to the Bisti Badlands and containing significant Late Cretaceous fossil beds including dinosaur and turtle remains.
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Highly praised wilderness badlands with fossils and hoodoos, less crowded and less famous than Bisti but similarly distinctive.
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The San Juan Basin Badlands is an area of highly eroded, rugged terrain located within the San Juan Basin of northwestern New Mexico. The landscape is geologically underlain by sedimentary rock layers from the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods. Because of the rapid erosion rates and exposed strata, t...
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Scientifically important basin with dinosaur and mammal fossils, but broad public destination identity is weaker than named wilderness areas.
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Kumimanu fordycei is an extinct species of giant penguin that lived during the Paleocene epoch in what is now New Zealand. Described in 2023 from fossilized remains, it is estimated to have weighed around 150 kilograms, making it one of the heaviest penguin species known to science. The discovery pr...
Waimanu manneringi is an extinct species of early penguin known from Paleocene fossils in New Zealand. It lived roughly 61 million years ago, not long after the end of the Cretaceous, and belongs to the early evolutionary history of penguins. Its significance comes from showing that penguin-like sea...
Kumimanu biceae is an extinct giant penguin known from Paleocene fossil remains found in New Zealand. It was described as a distinct species in 2017, and estimates based on its bones place its mass at roughly 100 kilograms. The species is significant to paleontology because it shows that penguins re...
Crossvallia waiparensis is an extinct giant penguin from the Late Paleocene of New Zealand. Fossil material was found near Waipara, and the species was described in 2019. Reconstructions suggest a height of about 1.6 metres, making it substantially larger than living penguins. It lived during an ear...
Crossvallia unienwillia is an extinct species of giant penguin known from fossil remains found on Seymour Island in Antarctica. It lived during the late Paleocene, approximately 61 to 56 million years ago, when the region supported ecosystems unlike those of the modern Antarctic ice sheet. The speci...
Sequiwaimanu rosieae is an extinct early penguin described from a well-preserved partial skeleton in the mid-Paleocene Waipara Greensand of New Zealand. The specimen, recovered from marine deposits near the Waipara River, includes a skull and more than 40 postcranial bones, allowing the species to b...
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