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Mafra Permian fossil site

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

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Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Why this spot

Rhythmite quarries yielding Permian fish, insects and ichnofossils on the northern plateau

Documented through the local paleontology museum and academic study.

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