THE PROVENCE

AN ELDORADO EVEN IN THE CRETACEOUS PERIOD

As soon as you leave the French Mediterranean coast between Marseille and Nice, which is paved with hotels and residential complexes, it gets lonely. Barren, dry and hardly populated, Provence stretches all the way to the foot of the Alps. Due to the sparse vegetation, however, the rocks of the subsoil come to light again and again. These are often extremely fossiliferous sediments from the Cretaceous period – famous for their often large ammonites.

We owe the finds on display here to Luc Ebbo, who has been roaming through lonely valleys and over steep, barren mountain ridges on foot almost every day for decades, always on the lookout for new discovery opportunities and new, spectacular finds.