Collecting Fossils with the New Mexico Museum of Natural History

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Microsites yield fossils that typically are 2cm or less and need to be put under a high powered microscope to be examined.

The process used to recover these microfossils is called screenwashing. It consists of running bags of fossil rich debris through various sizes of screen with water and then picking the fossils out under a microscope.