"Fossil Butte National Monument is a unit of the National Park Service located 15 miles west of Kemmerer, Wyoming, USA. It centers on an extraordinary assemblage of Eocene Epoch (56 to 34 million years ago) animal and plant fossils associated with the smallest lake — Fossil Lake — of the three great lakes which were present at that time in what are now Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado. The other two were lakes were Lake Gosiute and Lake Uinta. "
"Fossil Butte National Monument preserves the best paleontological record of Tertiary aquatic communities in North America and possibly the world, within the 50-million-year-old Green River Formation — the ancient lake bed. 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"
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After a long trip to the Afton Sled pulls we wanted to do something fun on our way. Fossil Butte just happened to be the "something fun". I think we all enjoyed it. Dayton loved looking at the fossils. Jace only like the ones that were horses or crocodiles. They even will let you go and help find fossils but they only let you do it on a Saturday for eight weekends out of the year. Its okay though... fossil hunting in July and August just doesn't sound like fun in 100 degree weather. the museum worked for us just fine! It was a fun stop and we will have to do it a few more times as the boys get older.
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