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The Messel pit (German: Grube Messel) is a disused quarry near the village of Messel (Landkreis Darmstadt-Dieburg, Hesse) about 35 km (22 mi) southeast of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Bituminous shale was mined there. Because of its abundance of well-preserved fossils of the Messel Formation dating from the middle of the Eocene, it has significant geological and scientific importance.[1] Over 1000 species of plants and animals have been found at the site.[1] After almost becoming a landfill, strong local resistance eventually stopped these plans and the Messel pit was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site on 9 December 1995. Significant scientific discoveries about the early evolution of mammals and birds are still being made at the Messel pit, and the site has increasingly become a tourist site as well.[1]
^ abc"Messel Pit Fossil Site". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. Retrieved 2 July 2022.
The Messelpit (German: Grube Messel) is a disused quarry near the village of Messel (Landkreis Darmstadt-Dieburg, Hesse) about 35 km (22 mi) southeast...
fossils of three different species of Leptictidium have been found in the Messelpit in Germany. The marks on their fur have been preserved, as well as their...
hussars. In 1806, the village fell to the Grand Duchy of Hesse. The nearby Messelpit is an important site for Eocene fossils. Signpost at the entrance Evangelical...
Palaeochiropteryx tupaiodon and Palaeochiropteryx spiegeli, both from the famous MesselPit of Germany, as well as Palaeochiropteryx sambuceus from the Sheep Pass...
Eocene Messel Formation as explored by the MesselPit excavations in Germany. A former quarry and now UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Messel Formation...
epoch (49 million years ago), and its fossils have been found in the MesselPit, Germany. Godinotia were about 30 cm long, excluding the tail, smaller...
Eupholidota. It lived during the Eocene in Europe. Eomanis fossils found in the MesselPit in Germany are very similar in size and anatomy to living pangolins of...
48 million years ago). Its fossil remains have been found in the Messelpit at Messel, Germany. It is the only known member of the extinct subfamily Parapreficinae...
plant-fossil databases revealed similar marks on a fossil leaf from the MesselPit, which is 48 million years old. Once the mandibles of the ant are secured...
of ease, much like modern-day squirrels. Its fossils were found in the Messelpit, preserving even its fur. Kopidodon had a thick bushy tail for balance...
fossil, called Ida, was discovered in 1983 at the Messelpit, a disused quarry near the village of Messel, about 35 km (22 mi) southeast of Frankfurt, Germany...
Diplocynodon in 2012. Well preserved specimens have been found in the MesselPit and the Geiseltal lignite deposit in Germany. Most articulated Diplocynodon...
the giant anteater, and the tamanduas. The fossil Eurotamandua from the MesselPit in Germany may be an early anteater, but its status is currently debated...
nature conservation. The museum houses many originals from the nearby Messelpit, Germany's first UNESCO World Natural Heritage Site, among them a predecessor...
Eocene of France and a complete specimen of the early middle Eocene of the Messelpit in Germany. They appear in Africa in the upper Miocene and only relatively...
Glarus High Coast Jungfrau-Aletsch Jurassic Coast Komi Kvarken Laponia MesselPit Meteora Monte Perdido Monte San Giorgio Mount Etna Nærøyfjord Pirin Plitvice...
Eocene epoch (about 47 Ma). Its geographic range is restricted to the Messelpit. There it unconformably overlies crystalline Variscan basement and its...
each from a famous freshwater lagerstätte: M. kelleri from the Messelpit in the Messel Formation of Germany, and M. janeae from Fossil Butte in the Green...
Pholidocercus is an extinct monotypic genus of mammal from the Messelpit related to and resembling the modern-day hedgehog with a single species, Pholidocercus...
the Messelpit of Germany, which dates to the Eocene. Peters, D.S. (1994) Messelastur gratulator n. gen. n. spec., ein Greifvogel as der Grube Messel (Aves:...
extinct subfamily Parapreficinae, is known from the Eocene of Germany (the Messelpit), marking the earliest fossil evidence of potoos. The fossil genus Euronyctibius...
have been found at the MesselPit in Germany. Dinosaur coloration Mertz, D. F., Renne, P. R. (2005): A numerical age for the Messel fossil deposit (UNESCO...
excavated at the MesselPit as the fossil species Archaeonycteris trigonodon. Archaeonycteris trigonodon Revilliod, 1917 - MesselPit (Lutetian), Germany...
found in the MesselPit of Germany. Mayr, G. (2009). "A well-preserved second trogon skeleton (Aves, Trogonidae) from the middle Eocene of Messel, Germany"...
during the Early to Middle Eocene. It was found in France and in the MesselPit in Germany. Lesmesodon was a weasel-sized carnivorous mammal. Michael...
masillaraptorid, a group of primitive falconiforms, from the Middle Eocene MesselPit, Germany. It is a long-legged relative of the living falcons. Only one...
scale by taking air samples of the affected region. The Messelpit fossil deposits of Messel, Germany, show evidence of a limnic eruption there in the...
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