WASHINGTON
Location: Bluffs along COLUMBIA RIVER upstream from Pasco, also along Franklin and Adams counties
Age: Pliocene
Fossils: Mammalian; equids, mammoths, cats, sloth, deer, amphibians, reptiles and fish
Comments: None
Location: Cliffs and road cuts on State Route 12 near Porter.
Age: Oligocene
Fossils: Gastropods, petrified wood,invertebrates including crabs.
Comments: Fossils can be found in sandstone and mudstone.
Location: State Route 11 (Chuckanut Drive) about 7 miles south of Bellingham. The sedimentary rocks of the Chuckanut formation.
Age: Eocene
Fossils: Plant fossils (Palm and horsetail plants, deciduous leaves and evergreen leaves (Sequoia), petrified wood. The rocks are composed of sandstone, mudstone, and shale, the best preserved specimens are in the shale.
Comments: There is a pull-off about a mile north of an oyster company where you can park and walk into Puget Sound.
Location: Metaline Falls.
Limestone deposit containing a few different species of trilobites. All specimens were warped in the way of horizontal stretching.
Location: Little burg of Republic, The Stonerose Center and collecting site is right in town.
Fossils: Plant fossils.
Age: Eocene and Oligocene
Comments: Go to the Center and sign up to collect. They will even rent tools to you if you need them. Two blocks away is the site, where you can
keep up to three fossils each after giving the folks at the Center a chance to scan your finds for potential new specimens.
Location: NW of Ellensburg, on the middle fork of the Teanaway River you can find leaf and twig fossils of Oak and ash. From 970, get
on Teanaway Road, then turn right on W fork Teanaway Road, then left onto Middle fork Teanaway Road. Go until the road turns into a dirt road and then .6 miles. When you see the river on the left, park and cross the river on foot, follow the river back about .1 miles and there will be a series of 30-40 cliffs of sandstone.
Comments: The fossils are on top of the sandstone, but because of the
rapid erosion of the cliff there should be lots of fossil bearing rocks at the base. |
