If you have been following our blog, you know that space in the Rover is very tight, so buying souvenirs is not high on our list, and well we aren’t really shoppers anyway. But, during our stay in Newcastle, we befriended a team of Archeologists who were doing surveys in the area. Every night we would ask what they had found and they would ask how the Rover was coming along and we would chat for a while. The night before they left, the team leader, Hillary, gave us a brachipod fossil.
If I have my facts right, which I may not so feel free to correct me, during the Paleozoic period (something like 450 million years ago)Wyoming was covered by a shallow sea, hard to believe since we are in the middle of a huge landmass. It left behind all kinds of marine fossils, like our brachipod, in layers of sandstone, shale and limestone.
So this little critter remnant is really, really old. What a great keepsake.
wow you are sure having the best trip. A great keepsake
We thought it was pretty cool. We’ll have to mail it home.