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La Guajira, La Guajira Department
Cerrejón fossil coal pits
Fossil site Documented siteProhibited, look only
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
FossilsPhotos via Wikimedia Commons: Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Why this spot
Vast coal strip mine whose Paleocene beds yielded Titanoboa and giant turtles
Documented in paleontological literature worldwide.
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