Events

Visiting the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument At 9:30 AM on Saturday, June 21, we will meet at the visitors center (about an hour west of Colorado Springs off Highway 24). Entrance to the Visitors Center costs $10 unless you have a current and valid annual National Parks Pass or an America the Beautiful (or […]

Corral Bluffs is a site east of Colorado Springs that was featured in the NOVA special, Rise of the Mammals. Plant and animal specimens which were collected - now in the collection of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science - existed during the first million years after the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction. Participants will meet off-site […]

This will be a one-day trip for the collection of marine invertebrate fossils and lovely calcite crystals.  It’s on private land so please respect that and the boundaries of the property.  The landowner will be playing with us! The terrain is not difficult; it does get hot with heat reflecting of the ground. There is some shade […]

Como Bluffs

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 […]