Stone Lake: An Introduction to Fossil Butte, Fossil Lake & the Kemmerer Fish Quarries

Only fifteen miles from Kemmerer, Wyoming, on the southwestern edge of the state, stands the Fossil Butte National Monument and its extraordinary museum and, above it, Fossil Butte itself, a low, broad mesa capped by limestone deposited in ancient Fossil Lake, once a large, still body of water amid lush tropical forests. The surrounding area is today home to commercial fossil quarries where visitors of all ages can find the fossils of fish and other organisms that once lived in and around the freshwater lake that vanished some fifty million years ago—a thriving ecosystem that paleontologist Lance Grande called a “lost world.”

This beautifully illustrated (more than 100 color photos!) introduction to the extraordinary fossil fish, plants, insects, reptiles, and other creatures of the Eocene-era Green River Formation, as well as to the fascinating history and present of Fossil Lake and Fossil Butte, will get you started on the adventure of a lifetime.

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