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Big Cedar Ridge plant beds

Fossil site Documented siteLegal to collect

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

FossilsFossils

Also reported: fern, cycad and flowering plant impressions.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Why this spot

Cretaceous ash-buried meadow preserving standing fossil plants

BLM interpretive locality studied by the Smithsonian.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

remote clay roads

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