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LAKEWOOD — Work on the $700 million West Corridor light-rail line unearthed fossils near West Sixth Avenue and Simms Street that experts say are fossil leaves in rock layers that were deposited between 64 million and 66 million years ago, the Regional Transportation District said Monday.
Representatives from the Denver Museum of Nature & Science determined that the fossil leaves “were from ancient palm trees, ferns and flowering plants deposited on a river bank and then buried with sand and mud, which eventually turned to stone,” according to RTD’s report.
