Resources

Early Cambrian Fossils In Western Nevada: Take a virtual field trip to a prolific fossil locality north of Death Valley National Park; detailed text; images of fossils; on-site images.

Ordovician Fossils In The Toquima Range, Nevada: Take a detailed virtual field trip to two 475-million-year-old fossil localities in central Nevada; explanatory text; images of fossils; on-site images.

Early Triassic Ammonoid Fossils In Nevada: A virtual field trip to what could well be the single best early Triassic ammonoid locality in North America; detailed text; images of fossils; on-site images.

High Inyo Mountains Fossils, Inyo Country, California: Visit a classic 325-million-year-old fossil locality near the crest of California's Inyo Mountains; detailed text; images of fossils; scenic images.

Field Trip To The Copper Basin Fossil Flora, Nevada: Take a virtual field trip to a 40-million-year-old fossil plant locality in northeastern Nevada; detailed text; images of fossils; on-site images.

Fossil Plants And Insects At Bull Run, Nevada: Take a virtual field trip to a 37-million-year-old fossil plant and insect locality; detailed text; images of fossils; on-site images.

The Early Cambrian Waucoba Spring Geologic Section, California: Take a virtual field trip to a world-famous Early Cambrian locality in northwestern Death Valley National Park; detailed text, with on-site image and links to images of fossils.

Fossil Insects And Vertebrates On The Mojave Desert, California: Virtual field trips to two world-famous fossil localities in the middle Miocene Barstow Formation, California; detailed text, with images of fossils and on-site photos.

Dinosaur Footprints and Trackways From the Northeastern U.S.: This webpage details footprints from the Triassic and Jurassic periods of the northeastern United States. Information includes photographs of footprints, along with information on stratigraphic horizon and correlation, age, and taxonomy.

Fossil Leaves And Seeds In West-Central Nevada: A virtual field trip to a fabulously productive Middle Miocene plant locality in Nevada, where the Middlegate Formation yields the leaves of evergreen live oaks, leaves from many species of deciduous trees and shrubs, plus winged conifer seeds.