Is it legal to collect at Fur Island: moler cliffs fossil beds?

Legal to collect. Casual splitting of loose moler on the shore is customary and museum hunts give access to active clay pits; the Knudeklint area is protected geological heritage so no digging into the cliff, and unique finds fall under Denmark's Danekrae law and must be offered to the state (with reward)

What can you find at Fur Island: moler cliffs fossil beds?

fossil fish, insects, leaves, ash layers, cementstone concretions

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Nordics, North Denmark

Fur Island

Moler cliffs fossil beds

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Fossils

Also reported: insects, leaves, ash layers, cementstone concretions.

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

Why this spot

Rockhounding locality: 55-million-year-old moler (diatomite) of the Fur Formation preserves fish, insects and birds in ash-layered cliffs on a Limfjord island

Fur Museum runs geologist-led fossil hunts in the moler quarries and trips to Knudeklint, Wikipedia documents the fossil-bearing formation