Everything about Fossil Butte National Monument totally explained
Fossil Butte National Monument is a unit of the
National Park Service located 15 miles west of
Kemmerer, Wyoming; the
national monument was established on
October 23,
1972. The site preserves the best paleontological record of Tertiary aquatic communities in North America and possibly the world, within the 50-million-year-old
Green River lake beds. 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.
Coal mining for the railroad led to the settlement of the nearby town of
Fossil, Wyoming, now a
ghost town. When the fossils were discovered, miners dug them up to sell to collectors. In particular,
Lee Craig sold fossils from 1897 to 1937. Commercial fossil collecting isn't allowed within the National Monument, but numerous quarries on private land nearby continue to produce extraordinary fossil specimens, both for museums and for private collectors.
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