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From the album: Coastline of the Crackingon Formation.
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From the album: Coastline of the Crackingon Formation.
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From the album: Coastline of the Crackingon Formation.
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From the album: Coastline of the Crackingon Formation.
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I've always wanted one of these and it's just arrived! I spotted it on the usual auction site where it was being sold by an antique seller as a possible fish in slate . It is true slate but is a legendary Delabole Butterfly, a metamorphosed Cyrtospirifer extensus, almost certainly from the Delabole slate quarry in Cornwall, UK. Although quite famous and widely referred to, there's not that much solid information. They appear to have been sold to tourists, largely in the 19th century and this split specimen seems typical. I think they're quite rare though - most photographed specimens seem to be in museums. Many years ago, I wandered around the edge of the quarry and managed to find one small fragment in the waste. Devonian, Frasnian, about 4" across. ,
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Cornwall and south Devon 'originally part of mainland Europe'
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
Cornwall and south Devon 'originally part of mainland Europe' Study reveals Britain acquired regions when struck by land bearing what is now France, Ima Sample, The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/sep/14/cornwall-and-south-devon-originally-belonged-to-europe The open access paper is: Arjan H. Dijkstra, and Callum Hatch, 2018, Mapping a hidden terrane boundary in the mantle lithosphere with lamprophyres Nature Communications. 9, Article number: 3770 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-06253-7 Yours, Paul H. -
I'm new to fossils(apart from basic school stuff). Saw this on a walk on the coastal path in polzeath, Cornwall- is it a fossil (hopefully) or just a bit of metal!
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I found this "tooth" on the beach in Cornwall a few summers back and I'm curious on what it actually is. If it is a tooth...from what animal? It's about 1.1 inches in length.