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Collecting fossil fishes in cowboy country
Author(s) -
MARTILL DAVID M.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
geology today
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.188
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1365-2451
pISSN - 0266-6979
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2451.1987.tb00843.x
Subject(s) - green river formation , archaeology , geology , fish <actinopterygii> , paleontology , natural (archaeology) , fossil record , fishery , geography , biology , structural basin
The Eocene Green River Formation fishes of southwestern Wyoming are among the best preserved and best known fossil fishes yet discovered. Collecting them is hard work and a very technical and time‐consuming process, but is made worthwhile by the fantastic setting in which the fossils occur. This is an account of a collecting trip under the leadership ofDr Lance Grande to expand the already spectacular collection of Green River fishes in the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago.