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More Information from other websites
- Other websites featuring Florissant Fossils
- University of Colorado Museum of Natural History
- Learn more about volcanoes
- Color patterns on fossil insects
- Permian insect fossils
- Praying Mantis, incredible predators!
- Modern redwood information
- National Parks with living redwoods
- Other public places with living redwoods
- Other National Parks with petrified wood
- Other famous fossil plant and insect localities
- Other famous insect fossil localities
- Green River Formation (Eocene)
- Piceance Creek Basin - A large collection of images from over 110,000 specimens of plants and insects collected for the Smithsonian by David Kohls.
- UCMP Berkeley's Green River Formation website.
- Solnhofen Limestone (Bavaria, Germany) - a Jurassic marine lithographic limestone containing insects, crocodiles, and marine animals.
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References - The information found on this website was obtained from the following references, all of which are great sources for learning more!
- Beckemeyer, R.J., Website: www.WindsofKansas.com (modern dragonflies and damselflies and Permian fossil insects of Kansas and Oklahoma)
- Borror, Triplehorn, and Johnson, 1989, An Introduction to the Study of Insects, 6th ed.; Saunders College Publishing.
- Evanoff, E. and Doi, K. eds., 1992, The Stratigraphy and Paleontology of Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument: A Progress Report; University of Colorado Museum.
- Grimaldi, D. and Engel, M.S., 2005, Evolution of the Insects; Cambridge Press, 772 p.
- Hall, J.D., 2004, Depositional Facies and Diagenesis of the Carlton Member (Kansas) and the Midco Member (Oklahoma) of the Wellington Formation (Permian, Sumner Group); Wichita State University: Unpublished Masters Thesis.
- Henry, Evanoff, Grenard, Meyer, and Vardiman, 2004, Geologic Guidebook to the Gold Belt Byway, Colorado: Gold Belt Tour Scenic and Historic Byway Association.
- Meyer, H.W., Veatch, S.W., and Cook, A., 2004, Field guide to the paleontology and volcanic setting of the Florissant fossil beds, Colorado: Geological Society of America Field Guide No. 5.
- Meyer, H.W., 2003, The Fossils of Florissant; Smithsonian Books.
- Wingate, F.H. and Nichols, D.J., 2001, Palynology of the Uppermost Eocene Lacistrine Deposits at the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, Colorado; In: Fossil Flora and Stratigraphy of the Florissant Formation, Colorado; Proceedings of Denver Museum of Natural Science: Series 4, No. 1.
- Wobus, R.A., 2001, Precambrian igneous and metamorphic rocks in the Florissant region, central Colorado: Their topographic influence, past and present; Pikes Peak Research Station Bulletin, v. 5.
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