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West Flanders
Ostend beaches (Testerep coast)
Fossil site, tidal Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
FossilsAlso reported: woolly mammoth, reindeer, aurochs, wisent, red deer.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Why this spot
Pleistocene
VLIZ records beach reports of woolly mammoth, reindeer, aurochs, walrus and wisent from Belgian beaches around Ostend, eroded from old seabed deposits.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
groynes, incoming tide
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