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Wyoming first became a hotspot for dinosaur research in the 1870s with the discovery of the dinosaurs preserved in the Morrison Formation. By the early 20th century, hundreds of tons of dinosaur fossils had been excavated from Wyoming. The Eocene fish Knightia is the Wyoming state fossil. Triceratops is the state dinosaur of Wyoming.
The Wyoming Dinosaur Center is located in Thermopolis, Wyoming and is one of the few dinosaur museums in the world to have excavation sites within driving distance. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The museum displays the Thermopolis Specimen of Archaeopteryx , which is one of only two real specimens of this genus on display outside of Europe.
This article contains a list of fossil-bearing stratigraphic units in the state of Wyoming, U.S. Sites. Group or Formation Period
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Natural Trap Cave is a pit cave in the Bighorn Mountains, in northern Wyoming, United States.Excavations in the cave are an important source of paleontological information on the North American Late Pleistocene, due to a rich layer of fossils from animals that became trapped in the cave.
Fossil of the Early Triassic-Eocene cycad-like frond Zamites †Zamites †Zamites arcticus †Zamites borealis †Zamites brevipennis †Zapsalis – or unidentified comparable form †Zephyrosaurus – or unidentified comparable form †Zofiabaatar – type locality for genus †Zofiabaatar pulcher – type locality for species
Red Gulch Dinosaur Tracksite is an assemblage of fossil dinosaur footprints on public land near Shell, in Big Horn County, Wyoming. [1] They were discovered in 1997 by Erik P. Kvale, a research geologist from the Indiana Geological Survey. [2]
The Hanson Site includes two separate areas of Paleoindian acheological sites in the northern Bighorn Basin of Wyoming, United States. The southern Hanson I site was investigated first in 1973, finding evidence of tool working and stone flakes at a campsite. The northern Hanson II site is larger and includes the sites of lodges.