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Fossil Butte National Monument

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Fossil Butte National Monument
Fossil Butte National Monument
Fossil Butte National Monument
Fossil Butte National Monument
Fossil Butte National Monument
Fossil Butte National Monument
Fossil Butte National Monument
Fossil Butte National Monument
Fossil Butte National Monument
Fossil Butte National Monument
Fossil Butte National Monument
Fossil Butte National Monument
Fossil Butte National Monument
Fossil Butte National Monument
Fossil Butte National Monument
Fossil Butte National Monument
Fossil Butte National Monument
Fossil Butte National Monument
Fossil Butte National Monument
Fossil Butte National Monument
Fossil Butte National Monument
Fossil Butte National Monument
Fossil Butte National Monument
Fossil Butte National Monument
Fossil Butte National Monument
Phone:
+1 307-877-4455

Address:
864 Chicken Creek Rd, Kemmerer, WY 83101, USA

Fossil Butte National Monument is a United States National Monument managed by the National Park Service, located 15 miles west of Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States. It centers on an extraordinary assemblage of Eocene Epoch animal and plant fossils associated with Fossil Lake—the smallest lake of the three great lakes which were then present in what are now Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado. The other two lakes were Lake Gosiute and Lake Uinta. Fossil Butte National Monument was established as a national monument on October 23, 1972. Fossil Butte National Monument preserves the best paleontological record of Cenozoic aquatic communities in North America and possibly the world, within the 50-million-year-old Green River Formation — the ancient lake bed. Fossils preserved — including fish, alligators, bats, turtles, dog-sized horses, insects, and many other species of plants and animals — suggest that the region was a low, subtropical, freshwater basin when the sediments accumulated, over about a 2 million-year period.
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