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Norway, Akershus

Slemmestad Cambro-Ordovician shore

Fossil site Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

FossilsFossils

Also reported: graptolites, orthocone cephalopods.

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

Why this spot

Classic Oslo-field shales and limestones with trilobites along Oslofjord

Geology center at Slemmestad and a century of field guides document these shores.

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