Fossil Locations

Burgess Shale

- 505 to 510 million years ago. Located in British Columbia.

- Trilobites (Cambrian period)

- Fossils: mostly soft-bodied animals (mostly arthropods).

- These animals have bones, shells, teeth and muscles, gills, digestive systems and other "soft" body parts.

Dinosaur Monument

- 150 million years ago.

- Located on the border of Colorado and Utah.

- Fossils from the Jurassic Period: dinosaurs, reptiles, amphibians, insects, and early mammals.

Fossil Butte

- 56-34 million years ago.

- Located in Wyoming.

- Fossils of fish, birds, reptiles, and plants.

- Show that the region was a low, subtropical, freshwater basin when the sediments accumulated, over about a 2 million-year period.

La Brea Tar Pits

- 10-14 thousand years ago.

- Located in LA.

- Large animals like mammoths would go

- They would get stuck in the tar becoming easy prey, other animals would attack the mammoth and get stuck in the tar.

- This creates almost perfectly preserved fossils.

- Dug up the Naegele's Giant Jaguar, The Columbian Mammoth, Ancient Millipedes, Baby Mastodon, The Dire Wolf, The Shasta Ground Sloth, The Saber-toothed Cat, and Asphalt Stork.