Two specimens of the reptile-like amphibian Seymouria sanjuanensis, discovered at Bromacker in 1997. Image: Oliver Wings
Two specimens of the reptile-like amphibian Seymouria sanjuanensis, discovered at Bromacker in 1997. Image: Oliver Wings - Researchers of the University of Jena involved in Citizen Science project on the Bromacker The Tambach sandstones are covered with thin clay skins on which ripple marks, raindrop impressions, dry cracks and many traces of worms, insects and vertebrates (so-called tracking plates) are preserved. In some horizons single bones and skeletons of amphibians and reptiles can be found. Image: Christoph Heubeck/Uni Jena In August, the BROMACKER project will launch a new type of scientific cooperation at the unique fossil site "Bromacker" in the Thuringian Forest. For the first time in more than a decade, systematic excavations and geological drillings are taking place there. But that's not all: The goal of the cooperation is to use the "Bromacker" fossil deposit to interconnect research and knowledge transfer in such a way that the public is provided with a window on the early evolution of vertebrates on land. Over the next five years, the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin - Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Research, the Stiftung Schloss Friedenstein Gotha, the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the National GeoPark Thuringia Inselsberg-Drei Gleichen will be working together to achieve this goal.
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