Florissant Formation
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The Florissant Formation is a sedimentary geologic formation outcropping around Florissant, Teller County, Colorado. The formation is noted for the abundant and exceptionally preserved insect and plan
Florissant Formation at the Clare fossil quarry in Florissant, Colorado
The Pioneer House, showing how the original pioneers of the west lived
2013 aerial photo
A large petrified stump of Sequoia affinis at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument
A large petrified forest thought to date to the Paleocene at around 55 million years old is located on and around the grounds of Cherokee Ranch in Douglas County, Colorado. These Denver Basin fossils
Florissant Formation
…analysis using paleoflora has the area at a higher elevation than modern times, there is evidence that the elevation was as low as the earlier estimates. Cherokee Ranch petrified forest, a largely untouched petrified forest in Colorado Green River Formation, a similarly fossiliferous, but older freshwater Eocene formation in the Colorado…
A fossil from the Cherokee Ranch petrified forest
A piece of petrified wood in situ, Highlands Ranch, Colorado