EXPLOREFOSSIL BUTTE NATIONAL MONUMENT

Fossil Butte National Monument

TYPE
National Monument
ESTABLISHED
1972
AREA
8k acres
STATE
WY
ECOSYSTEM
Desert

A remote Wyoming butte preserving one of the world's richest deposits of Eocene-era freshwater fish fossils, 50 million years old.

OFFICIAL LINKS
NPS Official Site ↗Recreation.gov ↗AllTrails ↗
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