Fossil Butte Visitor Center/Museum - Fossil Butte National monument - History Museums on Waymarking.com

This visitor center/museum is located at Fossil Butte National Monument just outside Kemmerer, Wyoming. Here you can learn all about the fossils found in the area and how long some of these items have been around. You can watch a film or walk around all the displays they have available. You can even buy a gift or two or stamp your passport and the passport cancellation station to remember your trip by.

Some information about the history of the area:

Fossil Lake existed 52 million years ago in what is now southwest Wyoming. Today its sediments contain one of the richest fossil deposits in the world. Preserved in limestone are abundant fish and other organisms of the aquatic ecosystem including: plants, alligators, crocodiles, turtles, insects and crayfish. Less common are fossils from environments that surrounded the lake such as a horse, bats, lizards, birds, leaves, flowers and insects. The fossils indicate a warm and wet climate, quite different from the high, cold desert of southwest Wyoming today.

Theme: Natural History - Fossils and information about Fossil Lake. Street Address: 864 Chicken Creek Rd. Kemmerer, Wyoming 83101 Food Court: no Gift Shop: yes Hours of Operation: 9:00 - 5:30 daily Cost: 0.00 (listed in local currency) Museum Size: Small Relevant Web Site: [Web Link]

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Date Logged Log User Rating   09/03/2017 HM63 visited it 07/23/2012 MeanderingMonkeys visited it 07/26/2011 Mooroid visited it 07/26/2011 The_Simpsons visited it 06/15/2009 Chasing Blue Sky visited it 09/19/2006 kJfishman visited it

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