Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument

Infobox_protected_area | name = Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument
iucn_category = III

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caption =
locator_x = 53
locator_y = 48
location = Twin Falls County, Idaho, USA
nearest_city = Hagerman, ID
lat_degrees = 42
lat_minutes = 47
lat_seconds = 25
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 114
long_minutes = 56
long_seconds = 43
long_direction = W
area = 4,351 acres (17.60 km²)
established = November 18, 1988
visitation_num = 22,442
visitation_year = 2004
governing_body = National Park Service Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument near Hagerman, Idaho, contains the largest concentration of Hagerman Horse fossils in North America. The 4,351-acre (17.6 km²) Monument is internationally significant because it protects the world's richest known fossil deposits from a time period called the late Pliocene epoch, 3.5 million years ago. These plants and animals represent the last glimpse of time that existed before the Ice Age, and the earliest appearances of modern flora and fauna.

Notable fossil species

* Hagerman Horse, "Equus simplicidens", formerly known as "Plesippus shoshonensis"

External links

* [http://www.nps.gov/hafo Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument official site]