Timeline of paleontology in West Virginia

This timeline of paleontology in West Virginia is a chronologically ordered list events in the history of paleontological research occurring within or conducted by people from the U.S. state of West Virginia. == 18th century == === 1790s === ==== 1796 ==== A man named John Stuart sent some limb bones discovered by workers operating saltpeter vats in a cave then considered part of Greenbrier County, Virginia to Thomas Jefferson.

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