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Because i live in Greece i wanted to know if any fossils of large extinct animals (like dinosaurs or big mammals) have been found in Greece because when i search it i get no valid results so could you help me?

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A couple of months ago they found mastodont remains in Florina where my grandmother lives (northern Greece) So yes, it is possible 

 

https://www.prologos.gr/φλώρινα-εντοπίστηκε-προιστορικός-χα/?fbclid=IwAR25I-0MBkgvxMIps26U_ERe97eU5Mk7QJ64fw5QKqEdM9hgumZWhWFL-kM

 

In English:

https://neoskosmos.com/en/124166/prehistoric-mastodon-tusk-uncovered-in-greece/

 

Natalie 

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On 12/06/2019 at 2:54 PM, Natalie81 said:

A couple of months ago they found mastodont remains in Florina where my grandmother lives (northern Greece) So yes, it is possible 

 

https://www.prologos.gr/φλώρινα-εντοπίστηκε-προιστορικός-χα/?fbclid=IwAR25I-0MBkgvxMIps26U_ERe97eU5Mk7QJ64fw5QKqEdM9hgumZWhWFL-kM

 

In English:

https://neoskosmos.com/en/124166/prehistoric-mastodon-tusk-uncovered-in-greece/

 

Natalie 

yes but it is really weird in my opinion to not have discovered many fossils i mean many animals must have lived in this part of the world. Anyway thanks

 
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1 hour ago, anastasis008 said:

yes but it is really weird in my opinion to not have discovered many fossils i mean many animals must have lived in this part of the world. Anyway thanks

 
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Also mioceen can be found in some parts of Greece, I've seen beautiful echinoids from there. But it is true that we don't see many fossils from that country 

 

In Belgium dinosaurs were found , but on a depth of 322m.....

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Hello everyone, I am a new member with some interest in fossils but little knowledge....I come from Greece and from the area where the mastodon tusk was found...Ptolemaida in particular.

 

Not long ago, I visited the coal mines in the area and I have found a piece of coal with some shells attached to it.  

 

Does this classify as a fossil?

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Thanks.....that might explain then that I also found a sea shell in the same area.....I checked it up and it looks like a turritela communis....

 

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On 21.7.2019 at 6:14 PM, babist said:

a piece of coal with some shells attached to it.  

Nice gastros, possibly fresh-water-snails, but the matrix is not coal, its a silty-sandy, siliciclastic material.

 

On 21.7.2019 at 7:32 PM, babist said:

I also found a sea shell in the same area.....I checked it up and it looks like a turritela communis.

Looks indeed like at turritellid gastro. If it is a T. communis, its an extant snail. Perhaps they also lifed already several million years ago, but they do not belong to the age of Dinosaurs.

And the coal deposits in this area seem to be of Neogene age, max.  23 Million years old, whereas Dinos have lived more than 66 Million years ago. These coal deposits and associated fossils have nothing to do with Dinos.

Franz Bernhard

 

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