The head of the provincial surrounding department, Shahnam Ashtari, said on Wednesday that the site was discovered in the village of Ahaq.
Excavations at the site have uncovered astonishing fossils related to families of horses, elephants, bovids, rhinos, and all manner of carnivores.
The Maragheh fossil is among the five most important vertebrate fossils from Maragheh in the world, Ashtari said.
Ahaq is found in the region in terms of vertebrate, invertebrate and plant fossils, he said, calling for more studies in the area.
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