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San Juan Raya fossil beds

Fossil site Documented siteProhibited, look only

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

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Also reported: gastropods.

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

Why this spot

Lower Cretaceous shallow sea beds packed with rudists, gastropods and echinoids in the Zapotitlan desert

Classic Mexican paleontological locality with a community museum.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

desert heat

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