Small Specimens on View in Fossil Museum at Fossil Butte National Monument.
About 15 miles West of Kemmerer, WY. Located in Southwestern Wyoming, Fossil Butte National Monument is part of the Green River Geologic Formation which dominates the area landscape. The nps.gov website says: “Three ancient great lakes existed in the region of Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado 50 million years ago - Lake Gosiute, Lake Uinta, and Fossil Lake, the smallest. All are gone today, but they left behind a wealth of fossils in lake sediments that turned into the rock layers known as the Green River Formation, made up of limestone, mudstone, and laminated volcanic ash. The fossils are among the most perfectly preserved remains of ancient life in the world. Some of the most extraordinary of these fossils came from Fossil Lake, represented today in flat-topped hills where Fossil Lake once was. Fossil Butte National Monument preserves a butte at the lake's center and its invaluable, fascinating record of the past.” More information: Detour in new browser frame for http://www.nps.gov/fobu/expanded/fos.htm
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