Audio tour Tour of the Kalkturm GeoFoyer - Top Floor -

Tour stops

• AV production: “A House Made of Lime” or “Life Shows Some Backbone”
• Mosaic life forms – or: how evolution overcomes limits
• Life shows some backbone…
• A house made of lime
• Mosaic animal: Haikouichthys
• A fish out of water…
• Mosaic animal: Ichthyostega
• Life in the shadow of giants…
• Mosaic animal: Dicynodon
• Conquering the air
• Mosaic animal: Archaeopteryx
• Of apes and men
• Mosaic animal: Lucy
• Fossil finds from the “GrenzWelten” (BoundaryWorlds) National Geopark
• The fish fauna of Bad Wildungen
• The fossils of the Korbach Fissure
• The labyrinthodont of Heimarshausen
• Dinosaur bones in the Brilon Reef
• The sea cow from the Kassel valley
• Life in the ice age: the Neanderthal site in Buhlen
• Natural landscape – cultivated landscape
• Semi-arid calcareous grasslands
• German gentian (Gentianella germanica), also known as Chiltern gentian
• Juniper (Juniperus communis)
• Carline thistle (Carlina vulgaris)
• Southern six spot burnet (Zygaena transalpina hippocrepi)
• Three-toothed orchid (Orchis tridentata)
• Transparent burnet (Zygaena purpuralis)
• Sand lizard (Lacerta agilis)
• Fringed gentian (Gentianella ciliata)
• Red-backed shrike
• Wooden branch with sheep’s wool
• Long-horned groundhopper (Tetrix tenuicornis)
• Chalkhill blue (Polyommatus coridon)
• Fruticose (shrubby) lichen and limestone with lichen growth