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Baden-Wurttemberg

Steinheim crater (Miocene lake), Baden-Wurttemberg

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Nails and fittingsNails and fittings

Also reported: ostracods.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Miocene impact-crater lake sediments

Classic site of Darwinian snail evolution studies.

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