Urban fossils of Madrid

Echegaray Street - Las Huertas Street

Rojo Baztan Stone
Location
: store façade
Rock: lilmestone
Age: Cretaceous
Fossils: bivalves and corals

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Lower part of the façade clad in Rojo Baztan limestone

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Rojo Bastan slab

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Fossil fragments

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Bivalve shells (rudists)

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Close-up view of a rudist shell

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Rudist shells

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Coral colony