'Fossil vertebrates, Ashfall Fossil Beds, NE'

Credit: LARRY MILLER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

Caption: Fossil vertebrates. Several hundred well-preserved fossils representing 17 species of vertebrates have been uncovered at the Ashfall Fossil Beds in Nebraska. The animals died due to volcanic ash from a volcano that erupted in what is now Idaho about 12 million years ago.

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