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USGS D597, Nipple Butte

Kane County, Utah
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Minerals on record here

1 mineral

Recorded here: fossil.

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About USGS D597, Nipple Butte

USGS D597, Nipple Butte is a fossil collection site in Kane, Utah, cataloged in the Paleobiology Database. Fossils here come from the Wahweap Formation, dated to the Early Campanian (83.6–72.2 million years ago). The depositional environment is recorded as terrestrial indet. Documented finds include Osteichthyes, Lepidosteus, Reptilia, Testudines, Crocodylia, Hadrosauridae.

Geologic setting

Formation
Wahweap
Geologic interval
Early Campanian
Age
83.6–72.2 Ma
Depositional environment
terrestrial indet.
Recorded occurrences
6
Locality notes

USGS fossil locality D597 in section W1 in Peterson (1969); from T41S, R2E

Fossils found here

Osteichthyes
Osteichthyes
Lepidosteus
Osteichthyes · Lepisosteidae
Reptilia
Reptilia
Testudines
Reptilia
Crocodylia
Reptilia
Hadrosauridae
Ornithischia · Hadrosauridae

Records and references

Data: Paleobiology Database collection 236741 (CC BY 4.0) — view the source record

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Can you collect at USGS D597, Nipple Butte?

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 USGS D597, Nipple Butte?

Fossil.

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Source: Paleobiology Database.