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North Africa, Drâa-Tafilalet
Erfoud
Hamar Laghdad Orthocone Quarries
Fossil site Source-confirmed findsPermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
FossilsAlso reported: orthoceras, goniatites, corals.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Why this spot
Rockhounding locality: Devonian orthocone and goniatite beds
Trip report on fossils.at and published papers document the Kess-Kess mud mounds and cephalopod-rich strata; quarried since the 1960s for fossil marble
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Remote desert tracksExtreme summer heat, quarry edges and heavy machinery
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