Lahošť


Lahošť, until 2006 Lahošt is a village and municipality in Teplice District in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic.
The municipality covers an area of, and has a population of 566.
Lahošť lies approximately west of Teplice, west of Ústí nad Labem, and north-west of Prague.

Paleontology

of an elasmosaurid plesiosaur were found near this city at the end of the 19th Century. In Hudcov, a nearby village, plesiosaur Cimoliasaurus teplicensis was described in 1906 by Czech paleontologist Antonín Frič.