Questions on smokejacks quarry, surrey

[Pterygotus]

A few questions on smokejacks quarry, sulley: is it public or private? What is the possibility of finding dinosaurian fossils (percentage)? And could people who have been their show me their finds? Thanks in advance.

[Dinoguy89]

Baryonyx walkeri was discovered here by an amateur collector in 1983 and yes you can but I believe you have to belong to the geologists' group members.

[Oxytropidoceras]

Information about the geology and dinosaurs of the Smokejacks Brickworks can be found in:

 

Austen, P., 2001. The day of the Iguanodon. The 

Geologists’ Association Circular 948, 13.

 

Charig, A.J., Milner, A.C., 1997. Baryonyx walkeri, 

a fish-eating dinosaur from the Wealden of Surrey. 

Bulletin of the Natural History Museum,

London, Geology Series 53 (1), 11-70.

 

Nye, E., Feist-Burkhardt, S., Horne, D.J., Ross, A.J. 

and Whittaker, J.E., 2008. The palaeoenvironment

associated with a partial Iguanodon skeleton from 

the Upper Weald Clay (Barremian, Early Cretaceous) 

at Smokejacks Brickworks (Ockley, Surrey, UK), 

based on palynomorphs and ostracods. Cretaceous 

Research, 29(3), pp.417-444.

 

Ross, A.J. and Cook, E., 1995. The stratigraphy and 

palaeontology of the Upper Weald Clay (Barremian) 

at Smokejacks Brickworks, Ockley, Surrey, England. 

Cretaceous Research, 16(6), pp.705-716.

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.

[Jaimin013]

A Barynyx tooth in my collection from Smoke Jacks Pit.  not self collected but from an old collection. This location is a geological Site of Special Scientific Interest.

 

More info on this location here: https://ukafh.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/smokejack-clay-pit2.pdf but the article mentions Smokejack Clay Pit can only be visited, with permission, by organised geological clubs and groups.