Museum of Geology in Palermo
The G. G. Gemmellaro Geological Museum is part of the Museum System of the University of Palermo . concerning the geological history of Sicily and geological and paleontological collections from all over the world. The exhibition area is divided into three floors. Among the exhibits of considerable value are a gypsum crystal that contains a drop of water from the Mediterranean 6 million years ago and the oldest human skeleton found so far in Sicily dated Upper Paleolithic. The Museum also has a Dinosaur room. Among the finds exhibited in the room we find a large specimen of Carnotaurus, a carnivorous theropod that lived about 70 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous period, an Anhanguera, a flying reptile (pterosaur) of the Lower Cretaceous period, and a mandible of Tirannosaurus rex.
