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Saint Thomas, Saint Thomas Parish
Bowden shell beds
Fossil site Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
FossilsAlso reported: corals.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Why this spot
Pliocene shell marls at Port Morant, a world reference fauna with hundreds of mollusk species described since the 1860s
Classic type locality in Caribbean paleontological literature.
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
overgrown slopes
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