The Warm Springs Ranch
is located in the Big Horn Basin of
northwest Wyoming. The fossil-bearing beds overlook the picturesque
red hills at the northern end of the Wind River Canyon, about
one mile east of Thermopolis, Wyoming. |
The rocks were deposited
during the Jurassic period (see the Geologic
Time Scale), and are part of what today is called the Morrison
Formation. In addition to the significant dinosaur localities
within the Morrison, the Warm Springs Ranch offers excellent
outcroppings of Mesozoic
strata in general. |