A GREAT SITE NEAR THE DINOPARK

When the tracks had to be tunnelled through the mountain as part of the expansion of the InterCity Express line between Munich and Nuremberg, only around 10 kilometres from Dinopark, it was the ideal situation for palaeontologists: huge quantities of completely fresh, unweathered rock from the fossil-rich Middle Jurassic were extracted from deep within the mountain. In the years that followed, the spoil heap became an Eldorado for many fossil collectors, who made rich pickings there.

This display case is representative of many other excellent fossil sites in the vicinity of the Dinopark and shows some of the most beautiful and in some cases extremely rare ammonites that the collector Jens Kucharski found on the spoil heap of the tunnel and then prepared excellently.

Even today, excavation pits in the vicinity of the Dinopark continue to bring fossil-bearing rock to the surface and provide collectors with rich pickings.