The Isle of Wight is an island and fossil bed s from the Lower Cretaceous to the Lower Tertiary around the coast.
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But they are still plentiful : Hundreds have been collected from the field, and millions more languish in fossil beds the world over.
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The Sordes pilosus Unwin and Bakhurina studied was excavated in the 1960s from a rich Jurassic period fossil bed near Karatau, Kazakhstan, by Soviet paleontologists.
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Its fossil beds include giant bear-dogs bigger than any other African carnivore and stub-nosed deinotheres, proto-elephants whose bones are rewriting the history of the species.
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To spin around the 25-foot-long fossil bed and move it down the hall, they drove thick steel plates underneath the irreplaceable footprints _ without shattering them.
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The discovery site in Chad is more than 1, 500 miles west of the more familiar fossil beds of east Africa, in Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania.
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Mark Hertig is the museum curator at the Agate Fossil Beds National Monument in the northwest corner of Nebraska, which displays six of the Jameses'mammal replicas.
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The region of northeastern China where the skeleton was uncovered has some of the world's richest fossil beds, which have been actively explored over the last decade.
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"Dakosaurus andiniensis ", meaning " biter lizard from the Andes ", was first discovered in 1987 in the Neuqu�n Basin, a very rich fossil bed in Argentina.
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By law, the mined area was supposed to have been " returned to its original state "-- a move that would have buried the exposed fossil beds.
