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For your best convenience, we started to publish our systematic pages including photographs of fossils discovered on selected sites. These fossils were found mainly in Belgium, but since most of them have a wide repartition, they can be used to determine...

Some recent trips in the ancient quarries around Ciply (near Mons) delivered some nice fishes and sharks teeth. Pieces are discovered in the « Malogne conglomerate », phosphatic gravel usually quite hardened, and seated at the top of the “phosphatic chalk...

Carcharocles auriculatus, Ledian, Oosterzele, Belgium. Height about 4 centimeters. Ledian is a typically Belgian stratigraphical stage, similar to Lutetian of International Statigraphical Scale. Its age is about 40 to 50 millions years old. This level...

Rana sp., fossil frog, Miocene, China. Length about 9 centimeters. Hello everybody! Considering the fact that more and more amateur collector and palaeontology clubs appear, recently, public fossil collections disappear or become impossible to access...

Carcharodon carcharias, Pliocene, Doel (Left) and Hoevenen (right). Tallest, height 56 millimeters. Belgian fossil Great White Whatever some people may think, present-day Great White shark has not Megalodon shark for ancestor. The latter should be actually...

Hello everyone, As you can see, my blog is almost completely dedicated to my devouring passion of fossils. Since more than 33 years now, I search for remains of vanished worlds, traces of extinct lives, several millions of years old ! I travel a lot,...