Posts treating: "England"
Tuesday, 15 October 2019
This image is of a Williamsonia (aka Zamia) gigas cycad fossil. The plant existed in the Jurassic Period. Fossil was
discovered in Scarborough, England, United Kingdom.
Picture taken at Museo di
Geologia e Paleontologia
Florence Italy (Università degli Studi di Firenze) in August 2019.
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This image is of a Gingko huttoni plant fossil. The plant existed in the Jurassic Period. Fossil was
discovered in Scarborough, England, United Kingdom. Gingko is considered a living fossil by Western science once it was found thriving in an area of central China.
Picture taken at Museo di
Geologia e Paleontologia
Florence Italy (Università degli Studi di Firenze) on August
This image is of a Phacops downingiae (Murchison) trilobite fossil from the Silurian Period. Found in the Dudley England. Displayed at the Muséum National D'Historie Paris as of August
This picture is of a Chlamys textoria (Schlotheim 1820) scallop fossil. It was found in Lyme Regis England. The fossils date back to the Jurassic
Period.
Specimens displayed
at the Lyme Regis Museum in England as of August 2016.
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This trilobite fossil is a Lichas anglica.
The fossil was found in Dudley England. This animal inhabited the oceans of the Silurian Period.
It was displayed at Muséum National D'Historie Naturelle Jardin Des
Plantes Paléontologie et Anatomie Comparée as of August
This image is of the Diademopsis bowerbanki sea urchin fossil.
It was found in the Lower Lias of Lyme Regis England. The Blue Lias is in the bottom 32 meters of blue-gray limestone. This animal lived during
the Lower Jurassic Period.
Fossil on display
at the Lyme Regis Museum in England as of August 2016.
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This fossil is an Encrinurus punctatus Brunnich trilobite. The fossil was found in Dudley England. It dates to the Silurian Period.
It was displayed at Muséum National D'Historie Naturelle Jardin Des Plantes Paléontologie et Anatomie Comparée as of August
On a recent visit to Lyme Regis, I was able to purchase the fossil oyster that appears to be a Gryphaea arcuata. It was found in the Blue Lias of Lyme Regis Dorset County England. The creature existed in the Lower Jurassic Period.
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The Natural History Museum in London England has a special hall for the marine reptiles found along the country's south western coast. One the country's most famous paleontologists is credited with finding a number of these intact skeletons, Mary Anning. Her story starts off with her brother Joseph finding a relatively intact head of an ichthyosaur (Temnodontosaurus platyodon) in 1810 or
This image is of the Dapedium politum fish fossil.
It was found in the lower Liassic of Lyme Regis England. Creature is from
the Lower Jurassic Period. Fossil on display
at the Lyme Regis Museum in England as of August 2016.
This specimen was probably collected by Mary Anning. It was described in the Transactions of the Geological Society of 1821, in "Remarks on the Geology of South
This image is of the Pholidophorus sp. fish fossil.
It was found in the Lower Lias of Lyme Regis England. Creature is from
the Lower Jurassic Period. Fossil on display
at the Lyme Regis Museum in England as of August 2016.
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London, England — If any center of scientific research can be sacred, the Natural History Museum of London is a holy of holies for paleontology. Its deep history, highly skilled researchers and staff, and magnificent architecture makes it a very special place. As I wrote before, it is a secular cathedral of science, particularly life
London, England — I spent most of my museum time today at a keyboard, but in a splendid and collegial setting. Very productive and stimulating conversations with Paul Taylor and Consuelo Sendino, but mostly screen time. I drew little map boxes on a brachiopod, for example, as shown above. I also used Image J to
London, England — My first full day at The Natural History Museum in London was interesting and inspiring as always, but it did have its tedium. This drawer of Ordovician brachiopods, for example. I scanned each with my handlens in the dim lighting looking for a particular kind of encruster. Drawer after drawer. Saw many
Sherborne, England — It was a good day for Team Dorset. Cassidy Jester (’17) is shown above in Coombe Quarry near Mapperton, Dorset. She is standing on an erosion surface between the Comptocostosum Bed (Aalenian) below and Horn Park Ironshot (Bajocian) above. These are beds 2d and 3a in the local stratigraphic system, and ammonite
We have another beautiful brachiopod this week from our friend Mr. Clive Champion in England. He sent me a surprise package of fossils earlier this year. They are very much appreciated by me and my students! The specimen above is Cererithyris arkelli Almeras, 1970, from the Bathonian (Middle Jurassic) of Ranville, Calvados, France. (Ranville, by
Our featured fossil this week is another gift from brachiopod enthusiast Clive Champion of England. This fine specimen of Atrypa sp. was collected from the Middle Devonian (Lower Couvinian) exposed at El Pical, Leon, Spain. Atrypa is the emblematic genus of the atrypid brachiopods, which were common in the Devonian around the world. They were
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