PERMFILE102076

• Permit No: C1996083
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 12/11/2001
• Doc Name: Sections 6 through 12
• Section_Exhibit Name: Volume VI Cultural Resources Documentation from 1997 to present
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

• In the Paonia--Somerset area, Hazley Armstrong (BLM State Paleontologist) reports
that the local coal mines had produced several important finds despite the lack of a "Class I"
rating for the Mesaverde in that azea. Recovery ofplant fossils have been made from the Red
Canyon Mine, and the Cypress-Orchazd Valley Mine has yielded two coalified conifer stumps.
Leaves and plant fossils have also been found in a road cut near the Paonia Reservoir, and a
palm frond Sabalites sp.) was found in the rip-rap below the dam The Cypress-Orchard
Valley Mine has also produced many inoceramid clams and other invertebrates, as well as a
hadrosaur dinosaur tibia and femur. Hadrosaur and theropod tracks have been recovered
from the States-Hall Mine (Armstrong, personal communication August 2000).
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