🌿 Messel Pit Fossil Site

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The Messel Pit is a fossil preservation site in Hesse, central Germany, dated to the Eocene epoch. The fossil-bearing rock unit is a geologic formation named the Messel Formation; its geographic range is restricted to the Messel pit. There, the formation unconformably overlies crystalline Variscan basement and its Permian cover (Rotliegend) as well as Eocene volcanic breccias derived from the basement rocks. The formation mainly comprises lacustrine laminated bituminous shale renowned for its content of fossils in exceptional preservation, particularly plants, arthropods and vertebrates.

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Messel Pit Fossil Site is a natural World Heritage site in Germany, in Europe. For the living forecast of the area, open World Weather; the details of why Messel Pit Fossil Site was inscribed are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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