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Some of the world's best preserved fossils are found in the Fossil Butte National Monument on flat-topped ridges of southwestern Wyoming's cold sagebrush desert. Discoveries from the ancient lake sediments the Eocene Green River Formation of Fossil Basin are world-renowned. A fish fossil is held in the palm of a hand.
- Copyright
- MELISSA FARLOW
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- 4940x3304 / 4.8MB
- Keywords
- Contained in galleries
- The Big Open_Public Lands_National Geographic magazine and book 8/2001