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Iowa
West Branch Floyd River near Sioux Center
Fossil site Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Crystals and mineralsAlso reported: bison skulls and jaws, possible mammoth tusk tip.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
Late Pleistocene to Holocene
In September 2020 a Dordt University student collected two totes of bison bone and a possible mammoth tusk tip from the shallow West Branch of the Floyd River during very low water.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
soft banks, private land
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