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Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument

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Coordinates:42°47′25″N114°56′43″W / 42.79028°N 114.94528°W /42.79028; -114.94528

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Pliocene-age site near Hagerman, Idaho

Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument
IUCN category III (natural monument or feature)
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Location	Twin Falls County /Gooding County,Idaho,United States
Nearest city	Hagerman, ID
Coordinates	42°47′25″N114°56′43″W / 42.79028°N 114.94528°W /42.79028; -114.94528
Area	4,351 acres (17.61 km²)^[1]
Authorized	November 18, 1988 (1988-11-18)
Visitors	25,982 (in 2016)^[2]
Governing body	National Park Service
Website	Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument

U.S. National Natural Landmark
Designated	1975

Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument is a Pliocene-age site nearHagerman,Idaho. The 4,351-acre (17.61 km²) Monument is internationally significant because it protects one of the richest known fossil deposits from the Blancan North American Land Mammal Age.^[3] These fossils date from 3.07 million to at least 4 million years ago in age and represent at least 200 species. Hagerman is best known for having the largest known concentration of the fossilHagerman horse,Equus simplicidens. The fossil beds, including the historic Smithsonian Horse Quarry, were designated aNational Natural Landmark in 1975 and was reclassified as aNational Monument in 1988.^[4]^[5]

In 2014, Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument joined Sibiloi National Park in Kenya as "sister parks" through amemorandum of understanding between the National Park Service and Office of International Affairs, the National Museums of Kenya, and Kenya Wildlife Service. A fundraising campaign at Hagerman helped send three Kenyan students to the internationally recognizedKoobi Fora Field School, managed by George Washington University. Students from all over the world attend to learn East African archaeology, geology, and primatology taught by experts in their respective fields.^{[citation needed]}

In 2016, the Hagerman Paleontology, Environments, and Tephrochronology (PET) Project began their investigations into the geologic history at Hagerman with a focus on better dating individual fossil localities on the Monument and reconstructing the ancient landscapes that were there during the Pliocene. The PET Project is a collaboration between the park's former paleontologist and geoscientists from the US Geological Survey.^{[citation needed]}

In 2021, Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument entered a 25-year partnership with theIdaho Department of Parks and Recreation, which manages the six units ofThousand Springs State Park. The new Thousand Springs Visitor Center at the Billingsley Creek unit, opening in 2022, will feature all-new fossil exhibits and host ranger programs and other activities.^[5]

In 2022, Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument built a new state-of-the art research, collections, and fossil preparation building to facilitate paleontological and geological research and the proper curation of Hagerman's fossils.^{[citation needed]}

Notable fossils

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Hagerman horse,Equus simplicidens, formerly known asPlesippus shoshonensis
Camelops, an extinct genus of camel that once inhabited North America
Lontra weiri, oldest New World River otter and likely ancestor to today's four species of American river otter^[6]
A Blancan-age occurrence of the otherwise Hemphilian bear,Agriotherium^[7]
One of the earliest examples of the coyote-likeCanis lepophagus^[8]
A rich assemblage of other mammals, as well as birds, fish, amphibians, turtles, and invertebrates^[9]

References

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^"Listing of acreage – December 31, 2011"(XLSX). Land Resource Division, National Park Service. RetrievedMay 14, 2012. (National Park Service Acreage Reports)
^"NPS Annual Recreation Visits Report". National Park Service. RetrievedAugust 18, 2017.
^Bjork and Anderson 1990
^"Hagerman Fossil Beds".nps.gov.National Park Service. Archived fromthe original on October 11, 2006.
^^a ^bHagerman, Mailing Address: PO Box 570; Us, ID 83332 Phone: 208 933-4105 Contact."History & Culture - Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)".www.nps.gov. RetrievedFebruary 14, 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^Prassack, 2016
^Samuels et al 2009
^Prassack and Walkup 2022
^McDonald 1993

External links

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Media related toHagerman Fossil Beds National Monument at Wikimedia Commons
Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument travel guide from Wikivoyage
OfficialHagerman Fossil Beds National Monument website

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