• Knightia eocaena mass mortality

    Fossil Butte

    National Monument Wyoming

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Paleontology intern sweeps dust off of a newly discovered fossil in the fossil research quarry
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Fossil Butte National Monument
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Kemmerer, WY 83101

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Did You Know?

Knightia eocaena, NPS photo of Fossil Country Museum specimen

Knightia eocaena, a fossil fish, is the most abundant vertebrate fossil in the world and the state fossil of Wyoming.