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Here's another mystery item looking for information. I found this in a bucket of petrified wood out back. It doesn't appear to be pet wood, but rather a stromatolite, partially agatized. It has a little more than the usual clues that I have to go on for miscellaneous items acquired from other rockhounds (i.e. usually zero clues) in that it has 'Horse Canyon' written on it. Minimal, but at least it's a clue. I've tried to research where that could be, and there's a few different places in Google Maps called 'Horse Canyon' in the Western states but none that seem to have the right geology for this kind of thing, but I could have overlooked something. Does anyone know of a Horse Canyon that is known for stroms, or at least for pet wood as this may have been mistaken for pet wood...? Any places informally called Horse Canyon that may not be on Google Maps? (N.B. I am assuming Western US or Canada because it doesn't seem like there are any 'Horse Canyons' anywhere else in the world such as Australia, and because most of the old material I have would have generally been collected by local rockhounds from my area who frequently made trips across BC/Alberta and down to the Western states in decades past, but none of that is certain.)

Hello Everyone, My name is John. I live in Colorado and I have 8 year old triplet boys and they are crazy for fossil hunting. I have taken them to Kemmerer for fish fossils, Nebraska for mammal fossils and here in Colorado in Florissant for leafs and bugs and Kremling for Amonites and Baculites. We are now in search of our next location for fossil hunts. I don't mind pays me someone as a guide as it will help ensure that my boys find what they're looking for. Does anyone have any suggestions as to where we could go for our next adventure? Even if it's Nebraska as we enjoyed those trips. Thanks in advance.