# Natural Trap Cave

- **Country:** United States
- **Depth:** 85 ft
- **Location:** Bighorn Mountains
- **Elevation:** 4560 ft
- **Photo Caption:** View inside the cave

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.

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**Source:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_Trap_Cave (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)