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Faluns of Anjou at Thouarce

Fossil site Source-confirmed findsPermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Shark teethShark teeth
FossilsFossils

Also reported: shells.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Dominik Vogt (CC BY-SA 3.0), Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Why this spot

Middle Miocene

The Angers natural history museum holds an Otodus megalodon tooth from Thouarce, part of the Miocene Faluns Sea deposits that yield more than 20 shark species.View source →

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

unstable pit walls

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