Retreading old ground: Alf Museum returns to the Big Horn Basin for Peccary Trip

Last Thursday, the Big Horn Basin Geoscience and Dinosaur Museum hosted Dr. Andrew Farke, the Director of the Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology. Farke spoke as part of the group’s summer lecture series, which continues this week, and discussed at length the work he and his students are doing in the Big Horn Basin.
The primary goal of the group’s research, he explained, is to fill in gaps of knowledge about the Campanian period, which occurred roughly 83.6 to 72.1 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous Period, which ended with the extinction of dinosaurs 65.5 million years ago. What lived here? What was the environment like? Would the fossils found in the Basin be more similar to those found in the north, in Montana and Canada, or further south, in Colorado and New Mexico? And just how old are the Big Horn Basin’s rocks, really?