Fossil of the Month

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Every month special fossils from the palaeontological collections are presented by scientists from the BSPG and the Department of Paleontology and Geobiology. This feature has been availiable in English since November 2023. You can find more Fossils of the Month on the German BSPG Website (since 2011).

Fossils of the Month in English:
2024, 2025, 2026

January 2026: Tentaculits

Fossil of the Month 2025

Tentaculites sp.Paleozoic: Lower Devonian, approximately 410 million years oldChortkiv, Podolia, Ukr [...]

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February 2026: Sea spider

Fossil of the Month 2025

Sea spider Palaeopantopus maucheri BROILI, 1929Lower Devonian (Emsian, approx. 400 million years ago [...]

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March 2026: Mummified woolly mammoth skin with hair

Fossil of the Month 2025

Mammuthus primigenius (Blumenbach, 1799)BSPG 1995 I 41Quaternary: Middle – Late Pleistocene, c. 75 [...]

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