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See Decorah’s Oldest Resident!
@ Luther College – Valders Hall of Science
700 College Drive Decorah
Decorah’s giant sea scorpion, the Pentecopterus decorahensis, is officially home! Join in exploring and celebrating the life-sized model of Decorah’s most famous fossil discovery, now in its long-term home in Valders Hall of Science at Luther College. Learn more about the discovery and how this creature may have lived 465 million years ago.
- Go to Luther College’s main entrance / 700 College Drive
- Stay left for Upper Campus.
- Park in a visitor spot near the first building on the left, Sampson Hoffland Laboratories. Enter SHL.
- In the lobby of SHL, stay right to enter Valders Hall of Science.
- See Pentecopterus decorahensis in its display in the hallway!
