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.

Urban fossils reveal a wide range of prehistoric organisms, making our cities unexpected windows into Earth's past.

Guide of urban fossils

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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