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Post by dianthus on Aug 28, 2015 21:02:48 GMT
That's most commonly all you find, SueA |
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Post by Fractal on Aug 31, 2015 13:26:32 GMT
I have these Trilobites mum and dad brought back from a holiday in America several years ago. They are from the Burgess shale deposits so are around 500 million years old. They occurred during a period called the Cambrian explosion when suddenly there was a proliferation of multicellular life in the fossil record after previously very simple single celled fossils.  |
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Post by daitheplant on Aug 31, 2015 18:15:10 GMT
2 good specimens Steve.
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Post by dianthus on Aug 31, 2015 19:07:52 GMT
They look like Calymene blumenbachii, Steve N
We have them in the Wenlock limestone, a Silurian rock formation.... locally known as the Dudley bug  |
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Post by Rosie on Sept 3, 2015 9:22:58 GMT
I love the columns Fractal. My brother George is a Dr of Geology. He got his degree at Newcastle University. Your stone slab is amazing SueA. I have a collection of fossils and crystals in an old printers cabinet, my ambition is to have every hole in the drawers filled with either a crystal or a fossil  |
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Post by sweetpea on Sept 3, 2015 10:12:37 GMT
Ther's more than a few fossils on this forum When doing my science foundation course on the OU we got taken to a disused quarry near Reading where we had to dig out fossils we found there. Can't remember what they were but mostly ammonites I think. Not got any now as left with Reading uni. |
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Post by Lou78W on Sept 3, 2015 15:56:51 GMT
Ther's more than a few fossils on this forum When doing my science foundation course on the OU we got taken to a disused quarry near Reading where we had to dig out fossils we found there. Can't remember what they were but mostly ammonites I think. Not got any now as left with Reading uni. I was dreading reading your reply sweetpea..... cos you can be so norty at times......my apologies  |
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Post by sweetpea on Sept 3, 2015 16:37:58 GMT
Ther's more than a few fossils on this forum When doing my science foundation course on the OU we got taken to a disused quarry near Reading where we had to dig out fossils we found there. Can't remember what they were but mostly ammonites I think. Not got any now as left with Reading uni. I was dreading reading your reply sweetpea..... cos you can be so norty at times...... my apologies 'pology accepted Lou |
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Post by Lou78W on Sept 3, 2015 19:17:08 GMT
I was dreading reading your reply sweetpea..... cos you can be so norty at times...... my apologies 'pology accepted Lou pet....or do I mean pest...lol  |
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Post by dianthus on Sept 3, 2015 21:01:24 GMT
I love the columns Fractal. My brother George is a Dr of Geology. He got his degree at Newcastle University. Your stone slab is amazing SueA. I have a collection of fossils and crystals in an old printers cabinet, my ambition is to have every hole in the drawers filled with either a crystal or a fossil It is a small world..... more geology fans here than I imagined there would be 
Would you like some fossils rosie? Will have a rummage through my boxes. Got some brachiopods and belamites and possibly some cretaceous ammonites
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Post by Rosie on Sept 4, 2015 8:02:23 GMT
OOoooooooo dianthus!! Yes please but only if you don't want them and I shall pay the postage. I love fossils and crystals. Amber is one of my favourites in jewellery Has anyone seem Bismuth before? its fascinating |
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Post by dianthus on Sept 4, 2015 16:23:26 GMT
I shall look to see if I have spares... I collected quite a few terebratulina from Blockley pit, in the Cotswolds, as I thought about doing a dissertation on stratification and evolution, similar to Kirkaldy's work on Micraster in the Chalk beds. |
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Post by daitheplant on Sept 4, 2015 19:21:19 GMT
You got an Archaeopterix you don`t want Di?  |
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Post by dianthus on Sept 4, 2015 22:13:47 GMT
You got an Archaeopterix you don`t want Di? Ha ha
I think I have a piece of Ichthyosaur bone but no protobirds Dai
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Post by daitheplant on Sept 5, 2015 19:20:20 GMT
You got an Archaeopterix you don`t want Di? Ha ha
I think I have a piece of Ichthyosaur bone but no protobirds Dai
Sorry Di, I don`t want a big fish.  |
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