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AGFO	Agate Fossil Beds National Monument (US National Park Service)
AGFO	Association of Generals and Flag Officers (Philippines)

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Visitors to Agate Fossil Beds National Monument can see the remains of other extinct creatures (in addition to the Palaeocastor, above) including small camels called Stenomytus, dog-sized rhinoceroses known as Menoceras, and "bear dogs," such as the Daphoenodon, whose name means, evocatively, "blood-reeking tooth."

The beaver that didn't give a dam: solving the mystery of the ancient Palaeocastor

That calf hide, together wit the older pipe bag are part of the Cook Collection at the Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, Nebraska.

My thanks to Mark Hertig, Curator of the Cook Collection Museum at Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, Harrison, Nebraska, for all this information, his ideas and help, and for showing me all the above mentioned tipi renderings.

Red Cloud's painted tipi

SCOTTS BLUFF County: Scotts Bluff National Monument, on rock, Wetmore 77443, 77447, 77473, 77557, 77571, 77624, 77661, 77697, 77889; SIOUX: Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, on rock, Wetmore 77762, 77782, 77827, 77849, 77874, 77889, 77897, 77942, 77960; 13 miles N of Mitchell, on rock, Wetmore 77757.

GARDEN County: Ash Hollow State Historical Park, on exposed limestone, Ladd 18079; KEYA PAHA: Niobrara Valley Preserve, on caliche blocks, Ladd 16440; SCOTTS BLUFF: Scotts Bluff National Monument, on rock, Wetmore 77457, 77471, 77527, 77533, 77552, 77567, 77568, 77610, 77660, 77680, 77699; SIOUX: Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, on rock, Wetmore 77830, 77866, 77878, 77930, 77966; 13 miles N of Mitchell, on rock, Wetmore 77738; Ft.

GARDEN County: Ash Hollow, 22 miles NW of Ogallala, on Lecidella stigmatea, Wetmore 77420; KEYA PAHA: Niobrara Valley Preserve, in apothecia of Lecidella on exposed caliche, Ladd 16460, 16464; SIOUX: Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, on Lecidella stigmatea, Wetmore 77758, 77779, 77934.

SCOTTS BLUFF County: Scotts Bluff National Monument, Wetmore 77728, on Populus, Wetmore 77736; on Juniperus, Wetmore 77499, 77648; on Rhus, Wetmore 77727; SIOUX: Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, on Ulmus, Wetmore 77793.

Additions to the lichen flora of Nebraska

These include 70-million-year-old hadrosaur prints, the first dinosaur tracks from Alaska, located after two years of searching Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve on the Aleutian Islands; the most complete skeleton of the only pygmy island-dwelling mammoth at Channel Islands National Park in California; the first fossils ever described from the western hemisphere, mollusks collected in 1687 at what is now Colonial National Historical Park in Virginia; and the graveyards of 20-million-year-old camels and rhinos at Agate Fossil Beds National Monument in Nebraska.

Revealing the secrets of time: the National Park System contains a wealth of fossils and dinosaur bones that tell a story about our geologic past, but stronger laws, better enforcement, and better education programs are needed to more fully protect these valuable relics

For more information, contact Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, P.O.

Frozen in time: some of the world's most significant deposits of fossils are preserved in U.S. national parks