Hornfelsed Ammonites Stolen From Portrush National Reserve, Northern Ireland

[Oxytropidoceras]

Police probe after fossils stolen (from Portrush National

Nature Reserve), Belfast Telegraph, July 12, 2014

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/police-probe-after-fossils-stolen-30425158.html

World famous rocks stolen from Portrush, UTV, 11

July 2014 http://www.u.tv/News/World-famous-rocks-stolen-from-Portrush/468d08a8-50ab-41dd-a8e0-4e626af312bd

Information about the Portrush National Nature Reserve is at:

Portrush Nature Reserve, Discover Northern ireland

(has pictures of the hornfelsed ammonite fossils.)

http://www.discovernorthernireland.com/Portrush-Nature-Reserve-Portrush-P27379

Portrush Nature Reserve

http://www.doeni.gov.uk/niea/places_to_visit_home/nature_resintro/nature_reserves_portrush.htm

The historic value of the hornfelsed ammonite

fossils are discussed in:

Portrush, Ireland - The last stand of the Neptunists

by Siim Sepp, the Traveling Geologist (has pictures

of the hornfelsed ammonite fossils.)

http://www.travelinggeologist.com/2012/09/portrush-ireland-siim-sepp.html

Portrush National Nature Reserve - Portrush Sill

(Paleogene) and Waterloo Mudstone Formation

(Jursssic) http://www.habitas.org.uk/escr/list.asp

and http://www.habitas.org.uk/escr/site.asp?item=60

Geo-temptations on the Emerald Isle by Callan Bentley

Travels in Geology, January 2008 Geotimes

http://www.geotimes.org/jan08/article.html?id=Travels0108.html

Yours,

Paul H.

Edited July 12, 2014 by Oxytropidoceras

[Acryzona]

The first sentence really rankled me. The people who did this weren't fossil hunters, they were thieves and vandals. Unforunately news like this gives all of us honest collectors and hunters a bad name

[Auspex]

History thieves.

The fossils aren't worth the gas it took to run the rock saws.

[Wrangellian]

Right!