Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park
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"Although the popular image of a fossil dig usually involves a hot, dry desert or colorful badlands, Nebraska is one of the best areas of the United States for finding fossils from the Cenozoic, also known as the Age of Mammals (66 million years ago to the present). One of the most outstanding sites is Ashfall Fossil Beds in Antelope County, northeastern Nebraska. Excavations and other studies here since the 1970s have uncovered hundreds of excellently preserved skeletons of extinct rhinos, horses, camels and other animals, buried in volcanic ash dating to approximately 11.93 million years ago. Visitors can see some of these skeletons still in the ground, some of them almost perfectly articulated."
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"from Bryson book. largest in North America"
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"Antelope County, Nebraska, United States"
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"It’s incredibly rare to see more than bits and pieces of our world’s history, especially those that haven’t been collected and maintained by humans. But the Ashfall Fossil Beds offer something that very few fossil sites can manage. When a Yellowstone eruption spread ash across Nebraska, the bodies of the living creatures were frozen, intact, into fossilized bone beds. Now, visitors can see the lagerstätten in person, almost as if they were visiting the site 12 million years ago."
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