Fossil hunting in Saudi Arabia. It may be quite amazing to know that the Najd region of Saudi Arabia, which is the most of Riyadh Area was underwater from 20 to 70 Million years ago. The water that regress and recessed during the period left abundant remnants of the marine life that lived the period.
Now, those sea beds are stretching as escarpments through out central Saudi Arabia. Getting a piece of fossils with 20 million years old is quite easy and if you are so patient, you can look for some unique pieces.
These fossilized corals were found the along the tuwaiq escarpments. Patient observation is required to get a piece of fossils like these. These were found while breaking a round piece of rock
The accumulation of shells or shell fragments in the limestone, a sedimentary rock, provide geologists a record of the period of the animals that lived in the ancient oceans
Fossils found at the limestone beds of Tuwaiq at Edge of the World
A stone plate rich with fossilized shells, snails and other hard shelled creatures found in the lap of Tuwaiq escarpments
