Fossil sites from the Cenozoic Era, from the Paleocene and Eocene to the Pleistocene, preserving early whales, mammals, fish, plants and Ice Age animals. A site belongs here when its cited article dates it to the Paleogene, Neogene, Eocene, Miocene or Pleistocene. It excludes Mesozoic sites. Lake muds, volcanic ash and tar pits entombed animals whole at these places, giving an unusually complete record of life after the dinosaurs.
All Cenozoic and Ice Age Fossil Sites
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Messel Pit (Wikipedia)
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The Messel Pit is a fossil preservation site in Hesse, central Germany, dated to the Eocene epoch (about 47 Ma). The fossil-bearing rock unit is a geologic formation named the Messel Formation; its geographic range is restricted to the Messel pit.
Monte Bolca (Wikipedia)
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Monte Bolca is an Early Eocene-aged geologic site located near Verona, Italy.
Ashfall Fossil Beds (Wikipedia)
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The Ashfall Fossil Beds are especially famous for fossils of mammals from the middle Miocene geologic epoch.
Clarkia fossil beds (Wikipedia)
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The Clarkia fossil beds (also known locally as the Fossil Bowl) is a Miocene Latah Formation lagerstätte near Clarkia, Idaho.
La Brea Tar Pits (Wikipedia)
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Hancock Park was established around a cluster of tar pits formed by natural asphalt (also referred to as asphaltum, bitumen, pitch or brea in Spanish) that has continuously seeped upward from the ground for tens of thousands of years.
The Mammoth Site (Wikipedia)
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The facility encloses a prehistoric sinkhole that formed and was slowly filled with sediments during the Pleistocene era.
Painted Hills (Wikipedia)
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The layers of color for which the site is named can be traced back to cycling periods of wet and dry climate conditions associated with the transition from the Eocene epoch to the cooler, more temperate Oligocene epoch.
Florissant Formation (Wikipedia)
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Based on argon radiometric dating, the formation is Eocene (approximately 34 million years old ) in age and has been interpreted as a lake environment
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