“Paleontology in the lands of Lleida. La Pedrera de Meià and the beginning of a modern world”. Sala Gòtica de l’EI, Lleida

The fossil collection of the Institut d’Estudis Ilerdencs consists of more than 5,500 specimens, of which 4,000 correspond to the lithographic limestone sites of Montsec de Meià. The exhibition shows a selection of the best fossils in this collection and takes a journey through time thanks to the different sites in the lands of Lleida.

Most of the fossils on display come from the sites of La Pedrera and La Cabroa, with an extraordinary sample of the organisms that lived in the lake from the Lower Cretaceous, 125 million years ago. Other sites and ages represented in this exhibition are the Upper Cretaceous of the Pre-Pyrenees, with a sample of dinosaur bones, or the Paleogene, with the mammal sites of the Pyrenean Eocene and the Oligocene of Tàrrega and Cervera.