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The Stonerose Interpretive center & Eocene Fossil Site is a 501c(3) non-profit public museum and fossil dig located in Republic, Washington. The center was established in 1989 and houses fossils that have been featured in National Geographic Magazine , Sunset magazine , and numerous scientific works.
This list of fossil sites is a worldwide list of localities known well ... australopithecine remains and stone tools Orapa diamond mine: ... Glen Rose Formation: ...
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The single fossil known was found at the "Boot Hill" site in Republic and added to the Stonerose Interpretive Center research collection before being officially described in 2019. The genus is thought to be most similar to another early Eocene genus, Huncoaeshna , which was recovered from the Laguna del Hunco Formation in South America.
The excavation consisted of digging a massive trench, in which researchers could find fossils within delicate shale beds by cracking the shale in half. However, many fossils were lost during this process, as shale becomes very delicate when exposed to the elements and would often crumble with fossils still hidden inside.
The stone’s origin could be anywhere between “Orkney and Shetland, down through parts of Caithness and Sutherland, down to Inverness, and then eastwards across to Aberdeenshire,” Bevins said.
A fossil of the cocoa flower Florissantia quilchenensis that symbolizes the Stonerose Interpretive Center... that the Stonerose fossil site contains the earliest known records of Rosaceae, the rose family?... that the paleobotanists David P. Penhallow and Chester A. Arnold both published studies on the extinct water-fern Azolla primaeva?