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Buenos Aires
Chapadmalal cliffs, Los Acantilados to Las Brusquitas
Fossil site, tidal Source-confirmed findsProhibited, look only
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Crystals and mineralsAlso reported: glyptodont (Neosclerocalyptus), ground sloth, large rodent burrows.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).
Why this spot
Pliocene to Pleistocene
The Chapadmalal cliffs hold one of South America's best Plio-Pleistocene mammal records, and a Neosclerocalyptus was found eroding between Los Acantilados and Las Brusquitas.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
unstable cliffs, tides
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