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Laayoune-Sakia

Boujdour / Sahrawi phosphate fossils (Morocco/W. Sahara)

Fossil site Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Shark teethShark teeth
FossilsFossils

Also reported: mosasaur.

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

Why this spot

Cretaceous-Paleogene phosphate beds

Moroccan phosphate beds famous for Paleocene-Eocene vertebrate fossils

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