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Purbek Kalk Formation

geologic formation in Germany

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 29, 2025
Entity authorityQ17514924 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Purbek Kalk Formation is a geologic formation in Germany. It preserves fossils dating back to the Cretaceous period.

See also

List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Germany

References

Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". Retrieved 17 December 2021.

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This entry incorporates text from “Purbek Kalk Formation” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.