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Ice Age Fossils State Park is a 315-acre state park in North Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, on the northernmost fringe of the metropolitan area. It is located adjacent to the Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument near Willie McCool Regional Park. The park saw its grand opening on January 20, 2024.
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] Joshua trees at Tule Springs Fossil Beds NM
Paleontology in Nevada refers to paleontological research occurring within or conducted by people from the U.S. state of Nevada. Nevada has a rich fossil record of plants and animal life spanning the past 650 million years of time. [1] The earliest fossils from the state are from Esmeralda County, and are Late Proterozoic in age and represent ...
This list of Nevada state parks comprises protected areas managed by the U.S. state of Nevada, ... Ice Age Fossils State Park: Clark: 323 131: 2,340 710: 2017:
Gold miners are finding fossils and mummified animals from the Ice Age. Now paleontologists have an ancient wolf pup, a baby mammoth, and a squirrel ball.
The wash, also known as the Upper Las Vegas Wash feeds into the Las Vegas Wash. [2] The wash area also includes several patches of the rare Las Vegas bear poppy.. This area is part of Ice Age Fossils State Park, a 23,000-acre (9,300 ha) conservation area, and Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument, established in 2014.
According to Caltrans, nearly 2,000 Ice-Age fossils were discovered during construction of the original State Route 99 Plainsburg-Arboleda freeway project in 2012 near the intersection of ...
This list of the prehistoric life of Nevada contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Nevada. Precambrian [ edit ]