{"id":4667,"date":"2016-09-11T19:24:48","date_gmt":"2016-09-11T19:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=4667"},"modified":"2022-06-28T16:01:44","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T16:01:44","slug":"digging-for-fossils-in-western-utah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=4667","title":{"rendered":"Digging for fossils in western Utah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We visited Delta, in western Utah, so we could dig for fossils in a privately owned quarry. &nbsp;The fossils were NOT dinosaurs, though, they were trilobites, or small&nbsp;creatures who lived approx. 550&nbsp;million years ago in the sea that was in what is now western Utah.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the website for the quarry:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.u-digfossils.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.u-digfossils.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At this quarry they give you a bucket and a couple of small pickaxes and you can dig through the shale rock to find 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Here&#8217;s the website for the quarry:&nbsp;http:\/\/www.u-digfossils.com\/ At this quarry they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=4667\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Digging for fossils in western Utah<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-113-delta-ut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4667"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6814,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4667\/revisions\/6814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}