We met a family that told us about fish fossiling in Kremmerer WY, about 2 hours from Salt Lake City. You get to go to a quarry and dig for fish fossils. We thought it sounded good but didn't know anything about it. We headed out to Kremmerer to find out how to go fossiling.
We decided to stop at the Fossil Butte National Monument first, where Dean and Morgan became Jr Rangers right away. It was so interesting there is a very large lake bed that has a layer of fish fossil preserved. One of the scientist say it is so unique because they can study the fish, plants, insects, reptiles as a community. Not just one dinosaur here one there. I mean we saw a picture of one fish eating another fossil version. We watched a ranger using a dremmel tool and vacuum cleaning stone away from the bones.
So now we wanted to go fossiling on our own. The place we decided to go was Warfield Fossil Safaris also the one recommend to us. We found their website http://www.fossilsafari.com/ with a map to the quarry. In keeping with our track record we had a really hard time finding the place. But we did and man it was so much fun. We found tons of fossils all fish we kept the best ones. The rock is pretty soft and you just spilt it layer by layer and BAM there are fish.
It will defiantly be one of the highs lights of our trip. We only dug for an hour or so and could have stayed for eight. If your ever in WY or looking for a great out door fossiling trip this is it.
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