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Cabo Verde
Baia dos Barreiros, Sao Nicolau
Fossil site, tidal Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Shark teethPhotos via Wikimedia Commons: Dominik Vogt (CC BY-SA 3.0).
Why this spot
Late Miocene (Messinian)
A 2023 Zoologia Caboverdiana paper documents an Otodus megalodon tooth collected in 2013 from a limestone band exposed in sea cliffs at Baia dos Barreiros, Sao Nicolau.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
sea cliffs, swell, remote access
Keep exploring nearby
More spots in this area.