All of the land turtles found in the Oligocene deposits of the central Western Interior are described as either Stylemys
Woolly mammoths were better able to cope with the extreme cold of the Ice Ages
27--Isotelus iowensis--Ordovinian--Trenton Group
The American paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope first described Edaphosaurus in 1882
Nimiana simplex, Ediacaran Fauna Dimetrodon All of the land turtlesNemiana simplex, is referred to as a vendozoan from the Precambrian Eon, Ediacaran (=Vendian) period, Podolsk Series, Nemiana River, Kamenez Podolskiy, Ukraine. Nemiana are extremely old enigmatic fossils of the Ediacaran fauna. Some believe they are jellyfish while others say sea anemone. This is a replica plate of Nemiana simplex that was found in Novodnestrovsky Quarry, Podolia, Ukraine. Nemiana is one of the simplest of all Vendia fossils, and is