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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Preserving the unpreservable: a lost world rediscovered at Christian Malford, UK
Contributor:
Wilby, Philip R.;
Duff, Keith;
Page, Kevin;
Martin, Susan
Published:
Wiley, 2008
Published in:
Geology Today, 24 (2008) 3, Seite 95-98
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1111/j.1365-2451.2008.00666.x
ISSN:
0266-6979;
1365-2451
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
The small village of Christian Malford, Wiltshire (UK) is known to palaeontologists the world over because of the chance discovery of an astonishing fossil bonanza in the mid‐nineteenth century. Pits in the Jurassic Oxford Clay yielded thousands of specimens of exquisitely preserved ammonites, fish and crustaceans, but became most famous for squid‐like cephalopods and belemnites (collectively termed coleoids) with fossilized soft‐parts. The precise location of the find has remained obscure, until now, and a new attempt is underway to understand the ancient environment that triggered this unusual preservation.