Dates: Saturday, July 18th Leader: Dennis Gertenbach Location: Trout Creek, CO - Collecting on local, state, or federal public land between Deckers and Woodland Park On this trip, we will be collecting is in the Manitou Formation from two sites. During the Ordovician (439 to 500 million years ago), Colorado was covered with an ocean. […]
Dates: August 1st and 2nd Leader: Dave Fangrow Saturday and Sunday: Casual collecting at Douglas Pass in the Parachute Creek Member of the Green River Formation on BLM land about an hour North of Fruita, CO. Douglas Pass is a great place for casual collecting along road-cuts at 9,000 ft of elevation, making it one of the […]
Cretaceous Fossilized Sea Turtle Nests
Show off those fossils!
How do you “read” sedimentary rocks? When you walk up to an outcrop or look at a hand sample, what are the first things you see? We will start with small rocks, then work up to a larger outcrop, because the scale of observation changes what you can see. The “things you see” are the […]
Taeniolabis is an iconic mammal of early Paleocene age from the Western Interior of North America. It is the largest known multituberculate mammal on Earth. Recent discoveries of extraordinarily complete skull material of Taeniolabis in the Denver Formation near Colorado Springs provides the first record of the species from the Denver Basin. Two different species, […]
