Scratches aren't as visible, he said, and it rarely needs to be cleaned and looks a lot better. It's a very unique picture on the floor, a one of a kind. Danielle Ward, sales representative from Color Tile, said most people don't know fossil tile exists. Local stores like Apex Marble and Cache Valley Countertops sell the cast molding, not the authentic fossils. Usually only one or two different fossil shapes are available.
Fossils can be a tricky thing to work with.
The federal and state governments like to be very much involved in what people can keep and how they can dig for it. If one is leasing the property, such as Lindgren was doing in the beginning, he had to pass everything he found through the Fossil Butte National Monument and U.S. Forest Service. In the Green River Formation, Lindgren said they usually find fossil fish because they are working in the Eocene era of fossil beds . According to the U.S. Geological Survey, most fossils that are being studied now have been excavated during the last 100 years. Montgomery said most of the fossils they have excavated have already been sent to various museums, such as Dinosaur National Monument in Utah Valley, the largest dinosaur museum in the world.