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Nebraska
Platte River east of Lexington
Fossil site Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Shark teeth
FossilsAlso reported: mammoth, bison.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Dominik Vogt (CC BY-SA 3.0), Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Why this spot
Pleistocene
A family found mastodon teeth about 6 inches across, tusk and large bones along the Platte about six miles east of Lexington, now shown at the Dawson County Museum alongside mammoth bones from near Cozad.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
quicksand-like braided channelsHeat, private land
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