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Iwaki City Coal & Fossil Museum

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Iwaki City Coal & Fossil Museum (Iwaki-shi sekitankaseki-kan), nicknamed Horuru, opened in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan in 1984. The collection and displays relate to local fossil finds — including the plesiosaur Futabasaurus suzukii — and the Jōban coalfield, once the largest on Honshū.

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