Title

Kemmerer

Caption

Kemmerer, Wyoming, Fossil Butte National Monument. The fossil of a beaked sandfish (Notogoneus osculus) is among fossils on display at the visitor center. Huge numbers of fossils of fish and other plant and animal life have been recovered from Fossil Lake, which covered the area 52 million years ago

Date

Jul 09, 2022

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Jim West

Reference

BRK23B41_315

Model release

No

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

32,4Mb (1,7Mb) / 17,9in x 7,0in / 5377 x 2105 (300dpi)

Keywords

Bony fish Bony fishes Finding Fish Fishes Fossilisation Gonorynchiformes Gonorynchus Memorial Memorial site Memorials Monument National Monument National Monuments Neopterygii No People North America Osteichthyes Otocephala Pisces US-American Wyoming animal animals archaeologic archaeological archaeology archeologic archeological archeology area areas beaked salmon beaked sandfish cover covered deserted display displays empty find finds fossil fossilised fossilization fossilized fossils historic historical million millions national monument no one nobody palaeontology paleontology petrification petrified territory uninhabited visitor center visitor centers visitor centre visitors' center visitors' centre year years Actinopterygii America American Clupeocephala Ostariophysi Ray-finned fish Ray-finned fishes US-America USA United States United States of America ostariophysians Teleost Teleostei teleosts