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Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument
posted by admin in beds, Fossil, Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument, UncategorizedHagerman Fossil Beds National Monument near Hagerman, Idaho, contains the largest concentration of Hagerman Horse fossils in North America. The 4,351-acre (17.6 km²) Monument is internationally significant because it protects the world’s richest known fossil deposits from a time period called the late Pliocene epoch, 3.5 million years ago. These plants and animals represent the last glimpse of time that existed before the Ice Age, and the earliest appearances of modern flora and fauna.
Notable fossil species
- Hagerman Horse, Equus simplicidens
External links
- Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument official site
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