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Bodjong Formation, Indonesia: Numerous deep-water molluscs from this Pliocene locality have given us a picture of past tropical marine life in what is today a very species rich area.
Creede Formation: A rich plant community from this Oligocene locality in southwestern Colorado includes pine, fir, barberry, and a variety of other species, all very well preserved.
Florissant Formation: This Eocene locality lies in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. Few U.S. localities have such remarkable preservation of fossil insects.
Green River Formation: Rich in fossils of plants, insects, and fish, this Eocene locality extends across Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming in the western U.S.
Rancho La Brea Tar Pits: One of the most famous fossil localities of all, La Brea is an asphalt seep containing Pleistocene fossils located in Los Angeles, California.
Monterey Formation: Vast area of exposed Miocene outcrops along the coastal ranges of California. Fossils include macroalgae, microfossils, shells, crabs, and porpoises.
Villavieja Formation, Colombia: Until recently, our only good source of information about Tertiary animals in the South American tropics was this site in Colombia. Many of the pre-Pliocene animal groups represented have been found nowhere else outside of the continent.
Paleozoic fossil localities
Aldan River, Siberia: Lower Cambrian fauna from this site in Yakutia, Siberia, trace the early evolution of animals with skeletons.
Burgess Shale: One of the greatest fossil finds ever made is the Burgess fauna of British Columbia. Thousands of soft-bodied animal fossils paint us a picture of Cambrian marine life.
Canning Basin, Australia: A great diversity of fossil gastropods has been uncovered in the Canning Basin.
Glass Mountains, Texas: Permian fossils from the Glass Mountains are of shallow, warm-water marine life.
House Range, Utah: A varied array of Cambrian critters has been found in the Wheeler Shale and the Marjum Formation, both of which are exposed in the House Range.
Joggins, Nova Scotia: Carboniferous coal swamps were home to early tetrapods such as Dendrerpeton.
Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada: The limestones of this region have preserved many spectactular fossils of Ordovician macroalgae.
Marble Mountains, California: Olenellid trilobites are plentiful in the Latham Shale, here in the Mojave Desert.
Mazon Creek, Illinois: This site has become famous for its iron concretions preserving both plants and marine invertebrates.
Rhynie Chert, Scotland: This has been one of the most important sources of fossils of early land plants and terrestrial arthropods. The anatomy of specimens is preserved in three-dimensional detail.
White-Inyo Mountains, California: You can visit Cambrian reefs in the mountains of eastern California.
Mesozoic fossil localities
Blue Nile Gorge, Ethiopia: Come along on a fossil-hunting trip to Ethiopia with UCMP researchers and see the first dinosaur fossils found there.
Clayton Lake, New Mexico: This Cretaceous site has some of the most extensive and best preserved dinosaur trackways in the United States.
Ischigualasto, Argentina: The best-known and best-preserved early dinosaurs come from this Triassic locality in South America.
Pt. Loma Formation, California: This Cretaceous locality has yielded important fossils for understanding western North American dinosaurs.
Karoo Basin, South Africa
Solnhofen Limestone, Germany: Exquisitely detailed fossils have come from these Jurassic deposits in southern Germany.
Bodjong Formation, Indonesia: Numerous deep-water molluscs from this Pliocene locality have given us a picture of past tropical marine life in what is today a very species rich area.
Creede Formation: A rich plant community from this Oligocene locality in southwestern Colorado includes pine, fir, barberry, and a variety of other species, all very well preserved.
Florissant Formation: This Eocene locality lies in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. Few U.S. localities have such remarkable preservation of fossil insects.
Green River Formation: Rich in fossils of plants, insects, and fish, this Eocene locality extends across Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming in the western U.S.
Rancho La Brea Tar Pits: One of the most famous fossil localities of all, La Brea is an asphalt seep containing Pleistocene fossils located in Los Angeles, California.
Monterey Formation: Vast area of exposed Miocene outcrops along the coastal ranges of California. Fossils include macroalgae, microfossils, shells, crabs, and porpoises.
Villavieja Formation, Colombia: Until recently, our only good source of information about Tertiary animals in the South American tropics was this site in Colombia. Many of the pre-Pliocene animal groups represented have been found nowhere else outside of the continent.
Paleozoic fossil localities
Aldan River, Siberia: Lower Cambrian fauna from this site in Yakutia, Siberia, trace the early evolution of animals with skeletons.
Burgess Shale: One of the greatest fossil finds ever made is the Burgess fauna of British Columbia. Thousands of soft-bodied animal fossils paint us a picture of Cambrian marine life.
Canning Basin, Australia: A great diversity of fossil gastropods has been uncovered in the Canning Basin.
Glass Mountains, Texas: Permian fossils from the Glass Mountains are of shallow, warm-water marine life.
House Range, Utah: A varied array of Cambrian critters has been found in the Wheeler Shale and the Marjum Formation, both of which are exposed in the House Range.
Joggins, Nova Scotia: Carboniferous coal swamps were home to early tetrapods such as Dendrerpeton.
Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada: The limestones of this region have preserved many spectactular fossils of Ordovician macroalgae.
Marble Mountains, California: Olenellid trilobites are plentiful in the Latham Shale, here in the Mojave Desert.
Mazon Creek, Illinois: This site has become famous for its iron concretions preserving both plants and marine invertebrates.
Rhynie Chert, Scotland: This has been one of the most important sources of fossils of early land plants and terrestrial arthropods. The anatomy of specimens is preserved in three-dimensional detail.
White-Inyo Mountains, California: You can visit Cambrian reefs in the mountains of eastern California.
Mesozoic fossil localities
Blue Nile Gorge, Ethiopia: Come along on a fossil-hunting trip to Ethiopia with UCMP researchers and see the first dinosaur fossils found there.
Clayton Lake, New Mexico: This Cretaceous site has some of the most extensive and best preserved dinosaur trackways in the United States.
Ischigualasto, Argentina: The best-known and best-preserved early dinosaurs come from this Triassic locality in South America.
Pt. Loma Formation, California: This Cretaceous locality has yielded important fossils for understanding western North American dinosaurs.
Karoo Basin, South Africa
Solnhofen Limestone, Germany: Exquisitely detailed fossils have come from these Jurassic deposits in southern Germany.
