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Hi everyone! Took the two hour drive to Kings dyke on Sunday hoping that the new material that had been dumped would produce. For those who are unsure Kings dyke is a nature reserve situated next to a working brick quarry. Every so often they dump a load of the spoil from the quarry in a area that the public are allowed to search in. In the photo below you can see the working quarry in the background and the fenced in fossil area in the foreground. What i would give to be allowed into the main quarry..... This material is absolutely full of Gryphaea 2D ammo
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G'day all! After three years since my last visit to the UK, i finally returned in December 2017 for another massive collecting trip across England. This was my most ambitious tour of the UK's Mesozoic and Cenozoic vertebrate deposits thus far, with 20 days of collecting across ten different locations. These were (in chronological order from first visit): Abbey Wood in East London Beltinge in Kent Bouldnor on the Isle of Wight Compton Bay to Grange Chine on the Isle of Wight Lyme Regis to Charmouth in Dorset Aust Cliff in Gloucestershire
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This is my most complete fish, and I found it last year. I went fossiling yesterday and found more fish bits, so hopefully it's a good layer of clay for fish. I thought understanding this one might help me with the individual pieces. More experienced people than me pointed out it's probably a skull, and there are vertebrae at one end (right hand side of first image). But I've been looking at fish skulls and I'm still confused. It looks like a snout at one end, which seems wrong. Is this distorted? I thought it might be Aspidorhynchus as that had a long rostrum, but I think it's more likely to
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I found some great stuff yesterday, but I'm stumped with this one. It is a two dimensional stain in the clay, there are three pieces of it, and I think it is perhaps a burrow, or a trace fossil of some kind. I've seen things I thought were burrows before, but they didn't look like this, so perhaps I was wrong in those instances? Or a different type of burrow. It's a very dark circular mark in the clay. The images without a scale are taken with my microscope camera. ETA Forgot the important bit! Oxford Clay, Peterborough Member, lower Jurassic. They've put new clay in the fossil hun
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Hi, @oxford clay keith @DE&i and anyone with any thoughts on the matter I go to two sites, within a few miles of each other, with exposures of the Oxford Clay. I've been puzzling at the difference between the biotas I find: Yaxley - Lots and lots of crinoid ossicles, vertebralis and surpula. Also plenty of gryphaea, belemnites and ammonites, the latter three dimensional and pyratised. Basically a lot of benthic critters, with some pelagic. King's dyke - No crinoids. No serpula. Haven't found verterbralis. There is evidence of pyrite, but th
