Where is one of the World’s Finest Fossil Fish Beds?
Ten miles west of Kemmerer at Fossil Butte Monument.
---The family of John Richard Roberts(8), son of Margaret(2)
& Hugh(1), settled in Kemmerer, (Frontier) Wyoming.
From the Wyoming Tourism site about Fossil Butte:
“The monument contains 8,198 acres and protects a portion
of the largest deposit of freshwater fish fossils in the world. The richest
fossil fish deposits are found in multiple limestone layers, which lie some 100
feet below the top of the butte. The fossils represent several varieties of
perch, as well as other freshwater genera and herring similar to those in
modern oceans. A large, deep-bodied fish with many curious plates is common.
Other fish such as paddlefish, garpike and stingray are also present.”*
Sources: Dobler,
Lavinia, “I Didn’t Know That About Wyoming”, Wolverine Gallery, Basin, Wyoming,
1984.
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