Gear up for your next adventure:

🥾Light Trekking Boots - Supportive boots for multi-day treks

🧥Ultralight Puffy Jacket - Maximum warmth that packs down to the size of an orange

🧢Sun Protection Cap - Breathable cap to protect from sun exposure

🔦LED Headlamp - Hands-free lighting for early morning starts or late finishes

🧥Insulated Jacket - Keep warm in cold outdoor conditions

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Saône-et-Loire topographic maps

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Montceau-les-Mines

France > Bourgogne – Franche-Comté > Saône-et-Loire

Exceptional preservation of Late Carboniferous fossil biota characterizes a Lagerstätte at Montceau-les-Mines. It has often been interpreted as a freshwater environment, sometimes even in high altitude, but some fossils, such as an amphinomidan annelid, and 142 specimens of the xiphosuran Alanops magnificus…

Average elevation: 299 m