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Continental, Baden-Wurttemberg

Holzmaden, Germany

Jurassic fossils

Fossil site Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

FossilsFossils

Also reported: The Posidonia Shale at Holzmaden is world-famous for complete ichthyosaurs.

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

Why this spot

ammonites, fish, marine reptiles

Documented rockhounding locality.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Remote or mine groundShafts, heat and weather
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