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John Day Fossil Beds National Monument is a U.S. national monument in Wheeler and Grant counties in east-central Oregon.Located within the John Day River basin and managed by the National Park Service, the park is known for its well-preserved layers of fossil plants and mammals that lived in the region between the late Eocene, about 45 million years ago, and the late Miocene, about 5 million ...
The Ashfall Fossil Beds of Antelope County in northeastern Nebraska are rare fossil sites of the type called lagerstätten that, due to extraordinary local conditions, capture an ecological "snapshot" in time of a range of well-preserved fossilized organisms. Ash from a Yellowstone hotspot eruption 10-12 million years ago created these ...
Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument is a Pliocene-age site near Hagerman, Idaho. The 4,351-acre (17.61 km 2) Monument is internationally significant because it protects one of the richest known fossil deposits from the Blancan North American Land Mammal Age. [3] These fossils date from 3.07 million to at least 4 million years ago in age and ...
Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument, a United States National Monument near Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada, was established in 2014 to protect Ice Age paleontological discoveries. The 22,650-acre (9,170 ha) monument is administered by the National Park Service. [1] The national monument is located in the Upper Las Vegas Wash and ...
The various fossil beds of the Green River Formation span a 5 million year period, dating to between 53.5 and 48.5 million years old. [8] This span of time includes the transition between the moist early Eocene climate and the slightly drier mid-Eocene.
The Burgess Shale is a fossil -bearing deposit exposed in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia, Canada. [2][3] It is famous for the exceptional preservation of the soft parts of its fossils. At 508 million years old (middle Cambrian), [4] it is one of the earliest fossil beds containing soft-part imprints.
Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument. The Florissant Formation is a sedimentary geologic formation outcropping around Florissant, Teller County, Colorado. The formation is noted for the abundant and exceptionally preserved insect and plant fossils that are found in the mudstones and shales.
The first sign of fossils was a shell bed. ... Older fossils lay even deeper beneath the bone bed. These 8.9-million-year-old rocks included fossilized bones of fish and marine mammals. Experts ...