Fossil Butte National Monument, Wyoming

Fossil Butte National Monument

Selected References

Ambrose, P., Bartels, W. S., Gunnell, G. F., Williams, E. M., 1997, Stratigraphy and vertebrate paleontology of the Wasatch Formation, Fossil Butte National Monument, Wyoming: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 17, no. 3, Supplement, 29 p.

Bradley, W. H., 1964, Geology of the Green River Formation and associated Eocene rocks in southwestern Wyoming and adjacent parts of Colorado and Utah. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 496-A, 86 p.

Buchheim, H. P., 1998, A Walk Through Time at Fossil Butte: Historical Geology of the Green River Formation at Fossil Butte National Monument: Fossil Butte National Monument: National Park Service Technical Report NPS/NRGRD/GRDTR-98/01:73-80. Available on-line at: http://www.nature.nps.gov/geology/paleontology/pub/grd3_3/fobu1.htm.

Grande, L., 1994, Studies of paleoenvironments and historical biogeography in the Fossil Butte and Laney Members of the Green River Formation: Rocky Mountain Geology, v. 30, no. 1, p. 15-32.

McGrew, P. O. and Casilliano, M., 1975, The geologic history of Fossil Butte National Monument and Fossil Basin: National Park Service Occasional Paper no. 3, 37 p. Available on-line at: http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/fobu/contents.htm.

National Park Foundation, 1991, Fossil Butte National Monument, climatological data: in The Complete Guide to America's National Parks: Washington, D.C.: National Park Foundation, p. 543.

National Park Service, 2006, Geologic Formations: Kerremer, Wyoming: Fossil Butte National Monument website: Available on-line at: http://www.nps.gov/fobu/naturescience/geologicformations.htm.

National Park Service, 2009, Fossils (with research quarry raw data through 2007): Kerremer, Wyoming: Fossil Butte National Monument website: Available on-line at: http://www.nps.gov/fobu/naturescience/fossils.htm.