Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park State Park

(Nebraska)

The Ashfall Fossil Beds of Antelope County in northeastern Nebraska are rare fossil sites of the type called lagerstätten that, due to extraordinary local conditions, capture an ecological "snapshot" in time of a range of well-preserved fossilized organisms. Ash from a Yellowstone hotspot eruption 10-12 million years ago created these fossilized bone beds. The ash depth was up to 1 foot. (Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashfall_Fossil_Beds)