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Cherry County Historical Society presents Don and Sandy Ormesher’s rock, mineral, petrified wood and fossil collection

Cherry County Historical Society presents Don and Sandy Ormesher’s rock, mineral, petrified wood and fossil collection
Pictured above are fossilized ammonites. Some still have their bright and colorful nacre. Others have been polished by the sand and waters over their ancient shell. They lived in the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, and date back 140 million years ago.

It’s hard to imagine anything larger than a bovine, bison, or bigfoot traipsing across the Sandhills of Nebraska, but there’s proof that there is. Don Ormesher was an avid fossil hunter, and lived on …