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From the album: Gastropods and Bivalves Worldwide
5cm. Shell as calcite replacement. laeviuscula zone Early Bajocian Middle Jurassic Found at Sherborne, Dorset, UK -
Our Moroccan trip from 19th-23rd February 2019. Day One; Locality One IFRANE Here we are near Ifrane, a village built by the French in the 1930's in a Swiss chalet style so there are pointy roofs instead of the usual traditional flat roofs of Moroccan buildings. This is wifey and Anouar, a Moroccan tour guide, old friend and one time student of English, his brother, our driver Abdullah, is taking the photo. Anouar paid for the trip, accommodation and food in return for me teaching him a little about the fossils, crystals and minerals that we encountered. The trip was mainly an exploratory voyage for me to discover where was worth revisiting when i was alone and had more time to spare. Somewhere in this area are outcrops of Pleinsbachian (stage of the Liassic/ Lower Jurassic) rocks that are stuffed with terebratulid brachiopods including more than a dozen species and subspecies that were first described from this locality, many unique to the site. Unfortunately, it's well off the beaten track, but I think i know roughly where now, so will return another day. Not time today! The area is covered in loose rocks, ploughed up in fields and roadbuilding, eroded from outliers or washed into the area in the autumn rainy season floods or spring melts. The ones behind us look Middle Jurassic to me, yellowish limestones, some with iron staining. Upper Jurassic and Cretaceous rocks are also in the region. The high ridges in the background are basalt intrusions as the Atlas mountains were formed as Africa began to collide with Europe throughout the Palaoegene and Neogene and this resulted in a lot of volcanoes. We moved on north of the village and stopped where we saw a group of the local fossil huts. These are all year round businesses, but in the season, from May til October you will find little stalls selling local fossils and minerals all the way along the route through the Atlas Mountains to the Sahara. But the temporary stalls are all closed at this time of year, as it's pretty chilly and there are few tourists. Top Tip : Always pop into a couple of different shops and check out prices. Tell the next shopkeeper how much the previous one had stated and see if they'll undercut for a similar item. Always, always haggle! Top Tip : Ask which fossils and crystals are local if you don't know already; most of the shops in Morocco have local fossils and others from all over the country. Local fossils will usually be much cheaper, wait until you get nearer to the localities of other fossils and see the prices come down! Top Tip : If you have the time, ask the purveyors of local fossils to show you where they came from. Then go and have a look. They don't mind this at all.
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From the album: Belemnites
8cm. From the Early Bajocian discites zone in the Wutach Valley.-
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A perfect gift I reckon - I won this on the usual auction site a couple of weeks ago and was allowed to unwrap it today. It's a 22", 3.3lb Megateuthis suevica (formerly gigantea). (They do get longer, supposedly well over 30", even a yard. One day...) It's now probably the star attraction of my belemnite collection (roughly a thousand specimens). I have collected the same species in the UK but I've not heard of any reaching this sort of size here, about 14" being the maximum I know of. My longest Yorkshire coast one, 10", is shown in photo 3. Middle Jurassic, Bajocian, reportedly from the Subfurcatum Zone (they're usually Humphriesianum, the zone below), temporary roadworks near Osnabrück, N. Germany, 1985. With 10" Yorkshire, UK specimen from the Scarborough Formation.
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From the album: Best of 2018 finds - a year in review
Stephanoceras sp : an ammonite from Nanteuil quary. -
From the album: Cephalopods Worldwide
13.5cm. romani subzone humphriesianum zone Bajocian Middle Jurassic From Sherborne, Dorset, UK-
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From the album: Cephalopods Worldwide
10.5cm. sauzei zone Early Bajocian Middle Jurassic From Sherborne, Dorset, UK -
From the album: Brachiopoda
2.5cm. humphriesianum zone Bajocian Middle Jurassic From Sherborne, Dorset, UK -
From the album: Cephalopods Worldwide
11cm. With exposed sutures discites zone Early Bajocian Middle Jurassic From Beaminster, Dorset, UK -
From the album: Belemnites
8.5cm. niortense zone Bajocian Middle Jurassic From Sherborne, Dorset, UK- 2 comments
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From the album: Cephalopods Worldwide
5.5cm. discites zone Early Bajocian Middle Jurassic Found at Bradford Abbas, Dorset, UK -
From the album: Cephalopods Worldwide
3cm. sauzei zone Early Bajocian Middle Jurassic From Sherborne, Dorset, UK -
From the album: Cephalopods Worldwide
3.5cm. romani subzone humphriesianum zone Bajocian Middle Jurassic Found near Sherborne, Dorset, UK -
Calcite steinkern. Index fossil for the subzone.
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Shell preservation.
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Partial shell preservation.
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Shell preservation.
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Hyperlioceras microconch.
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Steinkern.
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Shell preservation.
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Together with Sonninia propinquans, a smaller Sonninia sp. and a Chlamys sp. bivalve.
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Partial shell preservation with one apophyse preserved.
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