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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.
The Fairburn Agate is a type of gemstone found in the agate beds of Southwestern South Dakota and Northwestern Nebraska. It is also the state gemstone of South Dakota. [ 1 ] Fairburns are characterized from other types of agate by their colors and the shape of the bands.
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 .
Joshua trees at Tule Springs Fossil Beds NM. The national monument is located in the Upper Las Vegas Wash and protects part of the Tule Springs. [2] The wash area also includes several patches of the rare Las Vegas bear poppy. The land was designated after a local campaign to permanently protect the landscape as a national monument. [3] [4] [5]
These agates are typically less colorful, with banded lines of grey and white chalcedony. [17] Greek agate is a name given to pale white to tan colored agate found in the former Greek colony of Sicily as early as 400 BCE. The Greeks used it for making jewelry and beads. Brazilian agate is found as sizable geodes of layered nodules. These occur ...
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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 .