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Historical fossil localities are frequently lost because, among other factors, the outcrops have been actively mined or erased by urban development. It would be what happened with historical fossil localities from the old Valparaiso province, in which naturalists, such as C. Darwin, J. Dana, R. Philippi and J. Brüggen collected fossil specimens. Ba...
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... for this kind of fossils were kept by Darwin within a summary petrified wood entry in his locality notebook, where he identified the following localities: near Iquique (1), Copiapó (2), costa de Valparaiso (3), Cordillera de Aconcagua (4), Concepción (5) and north of Chiloé (6). Localities where he collected fossil wood in 1834-35 ( Figure 5). ...