Fire, flood or disaster · 05.08.1939
Digging for armoured fish at Tamme
Ürgkalade otsimine Tammel
In summer 1939 the geologist V. Paul dug into the Devonian sandstone cliffs on the shore of Lake Võrtsjärv at Tamme in Rannu parish, next to the Austre and Põdraotsa farms. He had been searching these banks for the bones of ancient fish for several years and had already identified about twenty kinds that lived here when the region lay under a warm sea. That summer he found about ten bones up to half a metre long, some from fish never found before. The red sandstone outcrop on the lakeshore is still a well-known fossil site.
Open it on the map See the spot on the old maps and as it is today
Eesti keeles
1939. aasta suvel kaevas geoloog V. Paul Võrtsjärve kaldal Rannu vallas Tammel Austre ja Põdraotsa talu juures devoni liivakivipaljandeid. Ta oli neid kaldaid ürgkalade luude otsimiseks uurinud juba mitu aastat ja kindlaks teinud paarkümmend kalaliiki, kes elasid siin ajal, mil piirkonda kattis soe meri. Sel suvel leidis ta kümmekond kuni poole meetri pikkust luud, osa neist seni tundmata kaladelt. Järve kaldal paljanduv punane liivakivi on tänini tuntud kivististe leiukoht.