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Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument
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Pioneers

Geology

Fossils

Paleoclimate

Paleoelevation

Paleoecology

Bibliography

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Evanoff, E., McIntosh, W.C. and Murphey, P.C. (2001). Stratigraphic Summary and 40Ar/39Ar Geocrhonology of the Florissant Formation, Colorado. In Evanoff, E., Gregory-Wodzicki K.M. and Johnson, K.R. [Eds.] Fossil Flora and Stratigraphy of the Florissant Formation, Colorado. (pp. 1-16). Proceedings of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, series 4, number 1.

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