Agate Fossil Beds
Agate fossil beds is not a dinosaur fossil site but one of the few sites in the world where early mammal fossils from the cenozoic era 65 million years ago are found in abundance.
Agate fossil beds. The site offers two trails including one to the main dig site. As with a previous reviewer our second visit to the agate fossil beds was to view the eclipse and we re from seattle. See more of agate fossil beds national monument on facebook.
Entrance fee 0 00 there is no entrance fee to visit the park. Things to know when planning a visit to agate fossil beds national monument. National park service logo national park service.
5 360 people like this. National park sites near agate fossil. The area largely consists of grass covered plains plants on the site include prairie sandreed blue grama little bluestem and needle and thread grass and the wildflowers lupin.
5 539 people follow this. Read all 156 reviews. At that time today s great plains region was drying out.
Scientists describe the miocene epoch as the period of time from 5 to 23 million years ago. Yet this place called agate is a landscape that. Park address 301 river road harrison ne 69346.
Agate fossil beds national monument is a u s. Website 1 308 436 9760. Agate fossil beds is 2200 acres of mixed grass prairie situated in the middle of sioux county in n.
Fossils and much much more. 301 river rd 825 56 mi harrison ne 69346. The mammals found at agate fossil beds national monument date from the early miocene epoch some 19 to 21 million years ago.
National monument near harrison nebraska the main features of the monument are a valley of the niobrara river and the fossils found on carnegie hill and university hill. Agate fossil beds national monument is located in a unique unglaciated area of the high plains with wetlands stretching out from the river and buttes which contain important information about the life of mammals in the miocene epoch. Agate fossil beds national monument natural depository of an extinct animal community on the niobrara river in northwestern nebraska u s 40 miles 64 km north of scottsbluff the beds were laid down as sedimentary deposits about 20 million years ago miocene epoch and bear the remains of prehistoric mammals including menoceras two horned rhinoceros moropus 7 feet 2 metres at.
During the 1890s scientists rediscovered what the lakota sioux already knew bones preserved in one of the world s most significant miocene epoch mammal sites. And we can t rave enough about the fantastic job done by the nps and local vol. Flowering plants proliferated and the abundant animals including birds responded to a new food source.
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