Welcome to the Monte San Giorgio

UNESCO's World Heritage Site
 
Come and visit these places, the local territory as well as the fossil Museum, they will allow you to discover a fascinating lost world dating 240 millions years ago.
 
Monte San Giorgio is one of the most important fossil deposit in the world, for the Middle Triassic, a geological period which took place between 247 and 237 millions of years ago. The fossils coming from  this mountain are known for their variety and their exceptional good conservation, they have been excavated and analysed  by Swiss and Italian palaeontologists from 1850.
 

The international recognition of this classical fossil locality was strengthened by its inscription to the UNESCO World Heritage Site. 

 

 

The World Heritage Convention

 

A Story of 240 Million Years

     
     

Looking for the great in the small

      I'm MCSN 5758, a Neusticosaurus

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