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Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument is a Pliocene-age site near Hagerman, Idaho.The 4,351-acre (17.61 km 2) Monument is internationally significant because it protects one of the richest known fossil deposits from the Blancan North American Land Mammal Age. [3]
The Hagerman Horse Quarry is a paleontological site containing the largest concentration of Hagerman horse (Equus simplicidens) fossils yet found. The quarry is within Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument, located west of Hagerman, Idaho, USA, at the geographic division of the Snake River Plain. The Hagerman Horse Quarry is an integral part ...
Hagerman is a city in Gooding County, Idaho, United States. The population was 872 at the 2010 census , up from 656 in 2000. [ 4 ] The area is noted for its fossil beds and the Thousand Springs of the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer . [ 5 ]
Equus simplicidens, also known as the Hagerman horse is an extinct species of equine native to North America during the Pliocene and Early Pleistocene. [1] It is one of the oldest and most primitive members of the genus Equus. It is the state fossil of Idaho, where abundant remains of the species were discovered near the town of Hagerman in 1928.
Hagerman Fauna Sites 1975 Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument 42°47′26″N 114°56′41″W / 42.7906°N 114.9448°W / 42.7906; -114.9448 ( Hagerman Fossil
Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument: Glenns Ferry Formation: Pliocene/Pleistocene: North America: US: Idaho: Hagerman horse ('American Zebra'), Camelops: Dinosaur Valley State Park [Note 2] Glen Rose Formation: Cretaceous (Aptian-Albian) North America: US: Texas: Dinosaur footprints Gray Fossil Site: Miocene: North America: US: Tennessee ...
This national park and monument is located in central Idaho along the Snake RiverThe park covers an area of 410,000 acres (1,700 km 2) and has an average elevation of 5,900 ft (1,800 m) The area contains different volcanic formations, basalt flows, and significant lava flows, tubes, and tree molds. [6]
The Hagerman horse (Equus simplicidens originally described as Plesippus shoshonensis) was declared the official state fossil of Idaho by the 1988 Legislature. A 3.5 million year old fossil bed near Hagerman , discovered in the 1920s, has yielded more than 30 complete horse skeletons and is said to be the "best known Pleistocene-epoch fossil ...