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Mytilinii fossil beds, Samos

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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

Late Miocene mammal beds famous since the 1880s for Samotherium and hipparions

Classic vertebrate lagerstaette held in museums worldwide; local museum at Mytilinii.

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