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Jalisco
Lake Chapala fossil beds
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
Pleistocene lake sediments yielding mammoth, glyptodont and horse bones along fluctuating shorelines
Documented in Mexican paleontological literature on the Chapala basin.
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
soft mud
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