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The geological–paleontological collection of the former Museum of Natural History and Environment in Cottbus, now belonging to the Municipal Museum of Cottbus, is containing nearly 60,000 samples. Three quarters of them are fossil specimen, which are coming out of the Miocene and Quaternary layers of the Lower Lusatia. These layers were accessible through up to 15 brown coal opencast mines. Most fossils of the Lower Lusatia were collected in three geological excavations of the museum: one in the upper Miocene leaf-bearing clay of Wischgrund and two in Eemian interglacial lake basins of Klinge and Schönfeld. The largest exhibit is a 3.20 m thick giant tree trunk of Sequoioxylon gypsaceum with nearly 1100 annual rings.
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Striegler, R., Striegler, U. (2018). COTTBUS: Museum of Natural History and Environment in Cottbus. In: Beck, L., Joger, U. (eds) Paleontological Collections of Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Natural History Collections. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77401-5_13
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