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The text related to the cultural heritage 'Messel Pit Fossil Site' has mentioned 'Fossils' in the following places:
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| Because of its abundance of fossils, it has significant geological and scientific importance. | WIKI |
| Contents 1 History 2 Depositional characteristics 3 Volcanic gas releases 4 Fossils 4.1 Mammals 4.2 Birds 4.3 Reptiles 4.4 Fish 4.5 Insects 4.6 Plants 5 Access 6 See also 7 References 8 Further reading 9 External links | WIKI |
| The pit first became known for its wealth of fossils around 1900, but serious scientific excavation only started around the 1970s, when falling oil prices made mining the quarry uneconomical. | WIKI |
| In the few years between the end of mining and 1974, when the state began preparing the site for garbage disposal, amateur collectors were allowed to collect fossils. | WIKI |
| The amateurs developed the "transfer technique" that enabled them to preserve the fine details of small fossils, the method still employed in preserving the fossils today. | WIKI |
| Due to the extraordinary fossils, the pit was declared a UNESCO world heritage site in 1995, one of the few sites that have ever been placed on the list exclusively due to fossils. | WIKI |
| Many of the known specimens from the site have come from amateur collectors and in 1996, an amnesty on previously collected fossils was put in effect, in the hope of getting privately owned collections back into public ownership and available to science. | WIKI |
| The fossils within the shale show a remarkable clarity and preservation due to the unique depositional characteristics of the lake and so the Messel pit represents a Konservat-Lagerstxc3xa4tte. | WIKI |
| Since the lake was very deep, animals that fell in it drifted downwards into oxygen- and bacteria-poor water, where they were preserved remarkably well, being overlaid by successive layers of mud that petrified later, thus producing an aggregation of fossils of exceptional quality, quantity, integrity, and variety. | WIKI |
| This last one was considered to be necessary in order to explain the occurrence of excellent fossils throughout the entire sedimentary sequence (Koenigswald & others, 2004). | WIKI |
| Fossils[edit] | WIKI |
| Splitting the shale with a large knife to reveal fossils | WIKI |
| A brief summary of some of the fossils found at the site follows: | WIKI |
| Early primate fossils Nine mating pairs of fossil turtles have been found. | WIKI |
| It provides unique information about the early stages of the evolution of mammals and is exceptional in the quality of preservation, quantity and diversity of fossils of over 1000 species of plants and animals, ranging from fully articulated skeletons to feathers, skin, hair and stomach contents. | UNESCO |
| The state of preservation of its fossils is exceptional and allows for high-quality scientific work. | UNESCO |
| The extraordinary state of conservation of the propertyxe2x80x99s fossils, which allows for the reconstruction of the morphology of the preserved fauna and flora as well as that of their environment, and the serious commitment by government for its long-term maintenance as a site of scientific importance, means that the conditions of integrity for the property are fully met. | UNESCO |