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Species found in Agate include: Miohippus, Merychippus and Parahippus, ancestors of the modern day horse. Diceratherium, two-horned rhinoceros. Menoceras, pony-sized rhinoceros, the most common animal found in the fossil beds. [7] Daphoenodon and Ysengrinia, two types of mid-sized bear dogs. Promerycochoerus, a semiaquatic hippo-like oreodont.
A characteristic feature of thundereggs is that (like other agates) the individual beds they come from can vary in appearance, though they can maintain a certain specific identity within them. Thunderegg is not synonymous with either geode or agate. A geode is a simple term for a rock with a hollow in it, often with crystal formation/growth.
Agate is in Sioux County, Nebraska, United States. Agate is located on Nebraska Highway 29 , 19 miles (31 km) south-southeast of Harrison . It is home to Agate Fossil Beds National Monument .
Abies concolor, the white fir, concolor fir, or Colorado fir, is a coniferous tree in the pine family Pinaceae. This tree is native to the mountains of western North America, including the Sierra Nevada and southern Rocky Mountains , and into the isolated mountain ranges of southern Arizona , New Mexico , and Northern Mexico .
Subalpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa). Most of the Rogue–Umpqua Divide is covered in a dense forest composed of sugar pine, grand fir, mountain hemlock, western white pine, incense cedar, subalpine fir, western redcedar, white fir, ponderosa pine, Douglas-fir, Alaska cedar, shasta red fir, lodgepole pine, pacific silver fir, western hemlock, and whitebark pine.
The park is in the high Sierra Nevada mountain range at an elevation of around 1,900 metres (6,200 ft). It is covered in mixed coniferous forest with tree species such as Jeffrey pine (Pinus jeffreyi), white fir (Abies concolor), Sierra lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta ssp. murrayana), California incense cedar (Calocedrus decurrens), sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana), and red fir (Abies magnifica). [4]
The Wilderness lies within the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest and is therefore administered by the U.S. Forest Service. [2]Bordered by Currant Mountain Wilderness on the south, the White Pine Range Wilderness was created by the White Pine County Conservation, Recreation and Development Act of 2006.
The Monument Rock Wilderness Area is a wilderness area within the Malheur and Wallowa–Whitman national forests in the Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon.It was designated by the United States Congress in 1984 and comprises 19,650 acres (7,950 ha).