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  • PaleoZone Trip to the Nail Quarry

    Nail Quarry WY, United States

    PaleoZone members, get involved with the experience of excavating and jacketing dinosaur bone fossils from the Nail Quarry at the Como Bluffs of Wyoming.  Although you cannot collect fossils at the quarry, we will also hike to another site where you can collect belemnites and other marine fossils to add to your collection. This trip […]

  • Indian Springs Trace Fossil NNL Site

    Indian Springs 3257 County Road 67, Penrose, CO, United States
    Attendance: 26 / 30

    This 450 million-year-old National Natural Landmark changed paleontology history when it was discovered on a private working ranch by Bennie Thorson just east of Cañon City in the 1960s. Carly Thorson, his daughter, provides a guided tour and will decipher and explain the movement of the creatures whose incredibly-preserved fossil footprints were captured in one […]

  • Tour of Steve Jorgensen’s Ammonite Collection

    Highlands Ranch Highlands Ranch, CO, United States
    Attendance: 8 / 10

    Steve Jorgensen has accumulated a world-class collection of ammonites from the Western Interior Seaway and has invited WIPS members to his home to tour his collection. During the tour, Steve will show examples of the wide variety of ammonites that lived during the Campanian and Maastrichtian Stages of the Late Cretaceous. You will see closely […]

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