Fossil Safari at Warfield Fossil Quarries, in Kemmerer, Wyoming is a pubic access site for Eocene Green River Formation fossils. It is located in southeast Wyoming, not far East from Fossil Butte National Monument. It is a fee-basis site and customers are allowed to keep all designated common fossil fish, while the Quarry reserves the right to retain all unusual fossils, which can include freshwater Stingrays, Turtles, Reptiles, Birds, Gars, Amia, freshwater Shrimp, Paddlefish, Crayfish, Mammals, "Aspiration" and "Eohiodons" (not sure what those last two are).
If I am able and circumstances permit, this is sort of a "Recovery" Bucket List item. Thirty-plus years ago, while I still lived in El Paso, from a local rock shop, I purchased a cool slab of Green River Formation with 70+ fossil fish (probably the common "Knightia") for a good price of less than $100.
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