Stories like this don’t always have a happy ending; resources that are much more fragile have been vandalized beyond repair. When enjoying the landscapes of Utah, please remember to show respect for these resources - paleo & archaeology are irreplaceable parts of our region’s natural heritage!

Thanks to a generous donation from Mike Leschin and the expertise of Go Wash Utah, the surface has been restored to its former glory! #FossilFriday

Because this track was made in the boundary between the Yellow Cat & Poison Strip members of the Cedar Mountain Formation, likely candidates include “iguanadontians” like Iguanacolossus, Hippodraco, and Planicoxa.

You can watch us collect this track and more fossils on @pbs.org in two weeks! 2/2

We’ll be back #LiveFromTheField again starting in August!

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We followed up that trip with an expedition to the Cretaceous Neslen Formation in the Book Cliffs outside of Green River. The main focus was geology, giving a number of our @ustatescience.bsky.social #geology students the opportunity to practice the skill of measuring geologic section.

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We were especially successful finding microsites, which sample a broader portion of the ecosystem than the typical #fossil locality.

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