Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1919 — Fossil Remains Found. [ARTICLE]

Fossil Remains Found.

Steamboat Springs, Col. —The fossil remains of an antediluvian monster, half fish and half reptile, believed to have lived millions of years ago when the great Uintah basin was an ocean, have been discovered in the elaterite deposits of Indian Canyon by George Stewart. The snake fish fossil was found completely Imbedded between two layers of elaterite and had shiny, jet-black scales of a diamond shlpe.