12 Mile Creek Site is a fossil collection site in Logan, Kansas, cataloged in the Paleobiology Database. The depositional environment is recorded as fine channel fill. Documented finds include Bison antiquus, Pinus, Quercus, Populus, Poaceae, Asteraceae.

Geologic setting

Geologic interval: Holocene
Depositional environment: fine channel fill
Recorded occurrences: 7

Geology notes

"The bones of the bison may have formed a dam" in a stream channel "causing the gray silt to settle around them"

Locality notes

"A bone bed about 3m2" that is "on the bank of 12 Mile Creek" in "Township 13 South, Range 33 West, in the N.E.1/4, of the S.W.1/4, of the S.E.1/4 of Section 32"

Fossils found here

Bison antiquus

Mammalia · Bovidae

Pinus

Pinopsida · Pinaceae

Quercus

NO_CLASS_SPECIFIED · Fagaceae

Populus

NO_CLASS_SPECIFIED · Salicaceae

Poaceae

NO_CLASS_SPECIFIED · Poaceae

Asteraceae

NO_CLASS_SPECIFIED · Asteraceae

Caryophyllales

NO_CLASS_SPECIFIED

Records and references

Data: Paleobiology Database collection 79625 (CC BY 4.0) — view the source record

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Questions about 12 Mile Creek Site

Can you collect at 12 Mile Creek Site?

It depends on who owns the land and whether a mining claim covers it. BLM land usually allows hand collecting for personal use, national parks allow none, and private land needs the owner’s permission. Pro members see the owner and any claims at this spot.

What minerals are found at 12 Mile Creek Site?

Fossil.

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Meteorite nearbyA 35 kg stony meteorite fell at Modoc (1905) in 1905, 27 miles from here.

Source: Paleobiology Database.