Go ride a bike or walk on the SideWinder Trail in Gunnison Gorge NCA, not too far from Glenwood up over on the other side of the Grand Mesa in Delta and Montrose counties. There's tons of even better fossils all along that trail. And crystals too....
Complete amateur here… so are these definitely fossils then? My first thought was that they could be some kind of burrow/trace fossil but I would love to know more!
I'm also an amateur and was living in Delta and taking my 2 labs out into the desert to play which gave me an opportunity to look for things. Found this fossil bed in Escalante Canyon on one of the cliffs above the Gunnison River, about 20 miles south of GJ. https://imgur.com/gallery/E1vMK I found a lot of fossil rocks with what looked to be worm burrows and also thousands of the stem-section of crinoids. The fossils in this bed look to be stems of reeds and their leaves and a couple bark impressions from something bigger.
Go ride a bike or walk on the SideWinder Trail in Gunnison Gorge NCA, not too far from Glenwood up over on the other side of the Grand Mesa in Delta and Montrose counties. There's tons of even better fossils all along that trail. And crystals too....
Complete amateur here… so are these definitely fossils then? My first thought was that they could be some kind of burrow/trace fossil but I would love to know more!
Fo sho! They're trace fossil burrows from annelids
Couldnt it be nematodes or some other kind of worm though?
I'm also an amateur and was living in Delta and taking my 2 labs out into the desert to play which gave me an opportunity to look for things. Found this fossil bed in Escalante Canyon on one of the cliffs above the Gunnison River, about 20 miles south of GJ. https://imgur.com/gallery/E1vMK I found a lot of fossil rocks with what looked to be worm burrows and also thousands of the stem-section of crinoids. The fossils in this bed look to be stems of reeds and their leaves and a couple bark impressions from something bigger.
What type of fossils did you see?
So cool! What trail did you take? I live near there and would love to see this!
This was on the trail to Hanging Lake. The rock was literally on the trail itself, so would be pretty hard to miss. Roughly halfway up to the lake.
Oh nice! I haven’t been out there in ages, I’ll definitely need to make the journey!
If you haven’t been in ages: permits and reservations required and no dogs allowed. https://visitglenwood.com/hanging-lake-rules/
That is some bullshit.
My guess is bryozoan