Paleontologists from the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York teamed up with Shasta County scientists this week to look for fossil evidence of ammonites — a prehistoric mollusk — near Lake Shasta.
They found dozens of them on Tuesday, their first day in the field.
“Shasta Lake is the only place in California that has this fossil — an ammonite species called Tropites subbullatus,” said AMNH field associate Jodi Summers.
Full story: https://www.redding.com/story/news/2021 ... 982163002/
Advertising