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.

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  • 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 is not 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.
  • Fossil Butte National Monument ist ein Schutzgebiet vom Typ eines National Monuments im Südwesten des US-Bundesstaates Wyoming. Es bewahrt eine Fossillagerstätte, den Fossil Lake, aus dem Eozän, vor etwa 50 Millionen Jahren. Das Schutzgebiet wurde 1972 eingerichtet, nachdem die Lagerstätte ab den 1870er Jahren erforscht und Funde über mehrere Jahrzehnte kommerziell vermarktet wurden. Es wird durch den National Park Service verwaltet.
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  • Fossil Butte National Monument ist ein Schutzgebiet vom Typ eines National Monuments im Südwesten des US-Bundesstaates Wyoming. Es bewahrt eine Fossillagerstätte, den Fossil Lake, aus dem Eozän, vor etwa 50 Millionen Jahren. Das Schutzgebiet wurde 1972 eingerichtet, nachdem die Lagerstätte ab den 1870er Jahren erforscht und Funde über mehrere Jahrzehnte kommerziell vermarktet wurden. Es wird durch den National Park Service verwaltet.
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