Cretaceous snails conceal themselves in monuments in Madrid
Thursday, August 3, 2017 - 10:02
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The fountains standing next to the Museo del Prado are built using a sedimentary rock full of gastropod shells from the time of the dinosaurs. These fossils have revealed the origin of the stone: forgotten quarries in Redueña, in the province of Madrid, where the building material for the Fountain of Apollo and the Palacio de las Cortes also came from.