Explore hidden fossils on the streets.

A museum at your feet

Fossils aren't just museum pieces; they're embedded in city buildings and sidewalks.Look closely, and you'll find diverse ancient life: shells, corals, even plant remains, preserved in the very stones we walk past.These urban fossils reveal a wide range of prehistoric organisms, making our cities unexpected windows into Earth's past.

Below are some of the most common types of urban fossils that you can find on the street.

GASTROPOD (SNAIL)

Gastropods, commonly known as slugs and snails, are a group of mollusks. Marine snails live inside spiral shells that are very common in sedimentary rocks.

ECHINOID (SEA URCHIN)

Sea urchins are round creatures that live inside a symmetrical skeletal structure made of multiple pieces. This skeleton is often covered in sharp-looking spines.

RUDIST

Rudists are a very peculiar group of extinct bivalves that developed bizarre, often large shells. These organisms formed extensive reefs on the oceans of the Jurassic and Cretaceous.

BIVALVE

Bivalves are a group of mollusks that include scallops, cockles, clams, oysters, and mussels. They live inside an exoskeleton consisting of a pair of half-shells or "valves".

CRINOID (SEA LILIES)

Crinoids, also known as "sea lilies" are animals that resemble plants because they live attached to the sea floor by a stalk.

CORAL

Corals are very abundant as fossils because they form colonies with calcium carbonate skeletons.

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