Fossil Butte National Monument Visitor Center

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Address: Kemmerer, WY 83101, USA

Phone: (307) 877-4455

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State: Wyoming

Zip Code: 83101

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Well worth the visit if you are interested in Fossils in any way.  

Great displays and timeline exhibit giving you a perspective on geologic history.  You have an opportunity to participate at the research quarry as well.

 9 years ago (05-08-2017)

Fossil Butte is, as the name suggests, a fossil-oriented park.  It is known for its plant and animal fossils from just after the dinosaurs died out, in the Palaeocene and Eocene epochs, especially its well-preserved and abudant fish.

One of the most eye-opening features of the park is its geological timescale.  Starting about 2/3 of a mile from the visitor center on Chicken Creek Road, you start seeing signs about events that have occurred, starting with the formation of Earth 4.567 billion years ago.  Using a scale of 9” = 1 million years, you see more events as you drive to the visitor center.  Once you park at the visitor center, you see more events, such as the extinction of dinosaurs, as you walk to the entrance.  Arriving near the entrance door brings you to the present time on the timescale.

Inside the visitor center is one of the best museum-like displays of fossils in all of the fossil-oriented parks.  It was somewhat busy the day we arrived, a warm midday in July, but not enough to ruin the experience.  An unexpected treat was to be able to watch a park employee working to reveal a new fish fossil from the rock containing it.  As he was working under a microscope, what he was seeing was displayed on a TV screen above him.

 10 years ago (07-08-2016)

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