The West Coast Fossil Park is a fossil park near Langebaanweg, Western Cape, South Africa, approximately 150 kilometres (93 mi) north of Cape Town.

[2] In this period, sea levels were higher and many now extinct animals lived in the riverine forests, wooded savanna and along the sea coast near the present day Langebaanweg site.

Phosphate mining operations at Langebaanweg uncovered these rich fossil deposits.

This represents possibly the greatest diversity of five-million-year-old fossils found anywhere in the world.

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