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Ammonite Fossil

Hikers in Cuba's Valle de Viñales National Park pass an exposed ammonite fossil. Most of modern-day Cuba was submerged beneath a shallow sea during the Cretaceous period, and the limestone outcrops of the Viñales region are strewn with marine fossils from the Cretaceous as well as the Jurassic.

Photograph by Steve Winter