This butterfly {Nymphaliks scudderi) lived a million years ago. Florissant is especially rich in flowers 

 and flower-visiting insects, and is the only locality in the New World where fossil butterflies are found. 

 Some of these show the wing markings very perfectly 



Roses, leaves, fi^riis, grasses, even fungi and mosses, are among the smaller fossil plants found at Florissant, 

 and flowers are abundant. This one (Parana lenuis) belongs to a type uow found in Asia but wholly absent 

 in America, and the flnding of such Old World forms suggests that land was, or recently had been at the 

 time the shales were laid down, continuous between Asia and America 

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