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Montceau-les-Mines

France > Bourgogne – Franche-Comté > Saône-et-Loire

Exceptional preservation of Late Carboniferous fossil biota characterizes a Lagerstätte at Montceau-les-Mines. It has often been interpreted as a freshwater environment, sometimes even in high altitude, but some fossils, such as an amphinomidan annelid, and 142 specimens of the xiphosuran Alanops magnificus…

Average elevation: 299 m

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