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British Fossils

A selection of British fossils to illustrate the geological succession, to link with early publications and the development of geology and to connect with places I have collected over the past few decades.
WB Ogyginus.jpg Erettopterus bilobus, 23 cm head and body, Kip Burn near Lesmahagow Aglaophyton major, 4mm sporangium with spores. Note thick sporangial wall. Gyroptychius agassizi, 35 cm, Middle Devonian, Orkney. Tristichopteris tetrapodomorph limb bones in pectoral fin highlighted Pectoral lobe fin anatomy seen on this specimen
Osteolepis macrolepidotus 16 cm, with spectacular skull, Sandwick Fish Bed, Orkney Pentlandia macroptera, 15 cm, Eday Flagstone/John o' Groats Sandstone Group of South Ronaldsay, Orkney. Dipterus Valenciennesi, 185 mm, Middle Devonian, Orcadian Basin, showing fine detail of tail and skull elements Woodocrinus expansus crown (9 cm) with smaller Woodocrinus macrodactylus crown, Namurian, Richmond, Yorkshire Goniatites sp., Treak Cliff, Derbyshire Balanerpeton woodi, 11 cm long, Lower Carboniferous (Visean, Brigantian), East Kirkton Quarry, Bathgate, Scotland.
Early Carboniferous palaeoniscid Cheese Bay Megalichthys skull anatomy with Osteolepis shown at same scale Maiocercus celticus, complete 4 cm arachnid (Family Anthracomartidae). Westphalian A, Crock Hey opencast, Haydock, Lancashire. Phalangiotarbid, Mesotarbus peteri, Lancashire Euproops rotundatus with encrusting microconchids. 40 mm wide, Crock Hey Open Cast, Wigan, Lancashire, England. Marl Slate nautilid, 45 mm,Peripetoceras freieslebeni (Geinitz) and juvenile Palaeoniscum, Co. Durham, UK
Cheirotherium (archosaur, sauropsih) footprints, Triassic Keuper Sandstone, Weston, Runcorn, Cheshire Cheirotherium footprints label Morganucodon watsoni triconodont tooth, Late Triassic, Glamorgan, Wales Phylloceras heterophyllum, 22 cm, Upper Lias, Lower Jurassic. Saltwick Bay near Whitby, North Yorkshire. Harpoceras falcifer, 115 mm. Upper Lias, Bituminous shale, L Jurassic. Sandsend Whitby, N,Yorks, England.  Dactylioceras tenuicostatum, 9.5 cm, Upper Lias, Grey shales, Whitby
The ophiuroid Palaeocoma milleri compared to illustration in Phillips (1829) Large megalosaurus footprint (cf Megalosauripus ichsp), 38 cm long, Hawsker Bottoms Zamites gigas, 30 cm bennetitale frond. Saltwick Formation, Middle Jurassic (Aalenian). Saltwick, Whitby, Yorkshire. Ferns, Coniopteris hymenophylloides, from the Middle Jurassic Aalenian at Whitby Bourgueticrinus hureae, 14 mm tall, Upper Chalk, Turonian, Pegwell Bay, Kent, UK. UK Cretaceous Chalk Scaphites equalis 27mm 4.jpg
UK Cretaceous Chalk Spondylus spinosus 33 mm 1.jpg