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Weitendorf, Styria, Austria

FranzBernhard

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Hello,

Not really a "hunting trip", just a quick look around, because the somewhat "famous" Miocene locality Weitendorf, Styria, Austria is a natural monument and collecting is strictly forbidden. However, not everybody minds this... There is a large, recent dig near the new access ramp. Situation on the photos is as found at 15. April 2017. Lots of broken fossils are lying around. 

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Franz Bernhard

 

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Viele Schnecken!

Grüße,

Daniel A. Wöhr aus Südtexas

"To the motivated go the spoils."

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Those are some very cool fossils! Shame the collecting there is forbidden though. Did you bring some home anyway?

Max Derème

 

"I feel an echo of the lightning each time I find a fossil. [...] That is why I am a hunter: to feel that bolt of lightning every day."

   - Mary Anning >< Remarkable Creatures, Tracy Chevalier

 

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Plax,

maybe! But I would expect that they refill their dig and cover it up again. The place looked more like a "crime scene" then a scientific dig site. 

 

Max-fossils,

no, I have left all there.

 

Btw, I have informed local professional palaeontologists about the situation there.

 

Franz Bernhard

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