Fossil Butte National Monument - Kemmerer, Wyoming
Travel Journal, Page 1 of 2
By Thomas A Dillhoff, Pasco, Washington

Fossil Butte is located on Highway 30, several miles west of the town of Kemmerer in southwest Wyoming. The monument was created to preserve rich fossil deposits from an Eocene lakebed, approximately 50 million years old. Outside of the boundaries of the monument, there are still several active commercial quarries that are producing abundant well-preserved fish fossils.

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