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Miramar coast, Punta Hermengo

Fossil site, tidal Source-confirmed findsProhibited, look only
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What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Shark teethShark teeth

Also reported: glyptodont armor, mastodon tusk, ground sloth.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Dominik Vogt (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Why this spot

Pliocene to Late Pleistocene

The Punta Hermengo museum in Miramar has recovered sabertooth footprints about 30,000 years old and, in 2026, a Notiomastodon tusk over 1.5 m long from Centinela del Mar to the south.View source →

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

cliff collapse, high tides

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