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Treasures of the Earth Ltd is your online retailer for authentic fossils, minerals, petrified wood, stone, bronze, and wood statues, fossil replicas, shells, architectural items and information. Wholesale prices are also available! |
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The specimens
shown below are all from the White River Badlands which spreads
across Nebraska, South Dakota, Wyoming, and Colorado. Fossils from this
formation were first documented in 1847 and since then have produced a
multitude of diverse fossilized species. The age of the White River
Badlands fossils that we carry are Oligocene (+35 million years);
at that time the climate and appearance was very similar to that of the
present day African savannas. Oreodons
are sometimes referred to as "ruminating hogs". They bear a resemblance
between the ruminants (cud chewing animals) and the suilline pachyderms
(pig-like thick skinned animals). The Oreodons were confined entirely to
North and Central America and it is not entirely known why they didn't
migrate across the Bering land bridge into Asia. One theory is that they
were unable to withstand the cooler climates of the area near the land
bridge.