Day 35 Jackalope Trail

The jackalope trail is easily overlooked, like its namesake animal:

It is not much for mountain biking: too eroded and steep. But it is great for fossils.

The New Mexico Slickrock: limestone

Embedded brachiopods in limestone

Micro and macro-fossils

Brachiopod shell

Corals perhaps

Marine life 300 million years old

Tiny Indian Paintbrush

Crinoids

Trailhead

Amazing to think that this was once below sea level

Apparently the area was equatorial when the sea existed

Weather to the West