Natural Trap Cave

Natural Trap Cave
View inside the cave
Map showing the location of Natural Trap Cave
Map showing the location of Natural Trap Cave
Location within Wyoming
LocationBighorn Mountains
Depth85 feet (26 m)
Elevation4,560 feet (1,390 m)

Natural Trap Cave is a pit cave in the Bighorn Mountains, in northern Wyoming, United States. Excavations in the cave are an important source of paleontological information on the North American Late Pleistocene, due to a rich layer of fossils from animals that became trapped in the cave.[1]

  1. ^ Larry D. Martin and B. Miles Gilbert (1978). "Excavations at Natural Trap Cave". Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences. 6: 107–116.