Europe

Understanding this collection

Browse documented European fossil occurrences, from English Jurassic marine and land reptiles to continental dinosaur finds. Much of ancient Europe had changing island geography, so modern country labels should be interpreted as discovery locations.

Membership reflects corroborated modern discovery locations in the retained occurrence sample. It is not a complete fossil census or a map of ancient continents.

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