page_title: Timeline of paleontology in Michigan
section_title: 19th century
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of paleontology in Michigan / 19th century
caption_attribution_description: English: Picture of a reconstructed fossil of Platygonus compressus (syn. Platygonus leptorhinus) at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.
context_page_description: This timeline of paleontology in Michigan is a chronologically ordered list events in the history of paleontological research occurring within or conducted by people from the U.S. state of Michigan.
caption: Platygonus compressus skeleton.
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