Fossils in t'Hills

We post a lot about the Carboniferous swamp plant fossils - and for good reason, as these are incredibly important to both human history and science in Northern England!

These swamps were also home to a range of other creatures, including lots of fish and sharks...

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🏛️ Gallery Oldham

Dark grey rock with small wheel- or cog-like fossils scattered across the surface

Close up view of the small cog-like fossils on the grey rock

Tiny fossil cogs?
Not quite, these are single segments (ossicles) of a crinoid stem.
In life, soft tissues would have run through the central hole. The radial groves and ridges would have prevented the sections of the stem from twisting in currents.

📍 Wensleydale
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Some fossils leave an impression on you - or on the rock!

We spotted this impression of a spiriferid brachiopod on our way up Pen-y-ghent over summer. If you look carefully you can also see a crinoid ossicle.

We're hoping for the rain to stop so we can get back out into the hills!

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Even in poor visibility on top of Ingleborough, we still found fossil plants!

This is in the Millstone Grit at the very topmost part of the peak.

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Today's #FossilFriday post is a Sea Monster and some Seashells...

Why? Because tomorrow afternoon we are back at the fantastic Land of Iron Museum to take people on a tour of the Jurassic ocean!

🐬 The ichthyosaur Temnodontosaurus zetlandicus from Loftus
🐚 A shell-bed of the bivalve Bositra

Some fossils really stand out from the rock.

We spotted this vibrant solitary coral in the Yoredale series of rocks near Pateley Bridge.

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This trilobite has a very cute name - Dindymene - at less than 1cm across it's more like Diddymene!

At 440 million years old this fossil is from some of the oldest rocks in the Yorkshire Dales, and appears to have been slightly distorted over the years...

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🏛️ Sedgwick
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Picture in your mind a shark tooth... We bet this isnt the shape you were thinking of!

The shark Ptychodus had a 'pavement' of these strange teeth for crushing hard-shelled prey. Ptychodus fossils have been found all over the world, including from Hessle near Hull.

🏛️ Sedgwick Museum #FossilFriday

Crinoidal limestone – limestone made of crinoids – what more needs saying?

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📍 Hebden, near Grassington

For #YorkshireDay and #FossiFriday we're celebrating the giant ammonites of Yorkshire!

From the foreshores of Redcar with their monstrous Arietites, to the oolite of Malton with its mighty Perisphinctes - and beyond!

Post your giant Yorkshire ammonite finds in the comments!

🏛️ Whitby Museum

Lurking at the bottom of the limestone in the dales is a rather impressive conglomerate – a rock made up of pebbles of other rocks.
This piece was pulled out of a cave by divers and contains a few
gastropods in amongst the pebbles – can you spot them?

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📍 Austwick

This weekend is Lancaster Dino Fest! But it's not just dinosaurs that had scales!

Come along tomorrow to St Nic's Arcade Lancaster to find out about the ancient scaly inhabitants of Lancashire and help us build a Carboniferous coal swamp!

🏛️ Manchester Museum
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Come along to St Nic's arcade on Saturday 12th to find out about the fossil plant of the Carboniferous

With Lancaster Dino Fest just around the corner, we're highlighting fossils from Lancashire!

Much of Lancashire is underlain by Carboniferous rocks, this lovely fern was found in one of the many coal mines from the area.

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🏛️ British Geological Survey
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Digging a railway in N England in the 1800s usually resulted in finding huge fossil trees!

These pair of Sigillaria were unearthed in 1837 in the outskirts of Manchester.

On July 12th we're exploring the fossil trees of the NW at Lancaster Dino Fest, come along to find out more!

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Fossil shell on a rock, there are trees in the background

With this hot weather it seems appropriate to post about the tropical inhabitants of the Jurassic Seas of Yorkshire.

This little chlamys (a scallop) was found in a stream near Kirkbymoorside, although during the Jurassic it would have been a shallow tropical sea.

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Heading to Redcar tomorrow for the Fossil Walks with the Yorkshire Fossils Festival team?

Before you head down to the beach, cast your eyes to the pavements. The promenade along the front is paved with some incredible Carboniferous fossils in black limestone.

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This lovely fossil is a sapling of a giant plant similar to those in Bradford's parks. It's photographed upside down to clearly show the 4 branching roots that all of these plants have - unfortunately the one closest has broken off and is missing.
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🏛️ Gallery Oldham

Some creatures are windows into the past - others are just windows...

This fossil is a fenestrate bryozoan. The fenestrate part of the name derives from the Latin for window, and refers to the grid-like skeleton of these filter-feeding colonial organisms.

📍 Thorpe
🏛️ Gallery Oldham

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The spectacular main chamber of Gaping Gill is one of the largest underground chambers in Britain.

There are a few fossils which can be seen in the limestone of the caves, including this magnificent fossil coral near the waterfall that was pointed out to us by an experienced caver.

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Last weekend Team Fossils in t'Hills (and friend) went on an adventure under the hills! We were thrilled to once again join Bradford Pothole Club at their winch meet at Gaping Gill.

looking a lot better back then!

Heading out to a park this #FossilFriday?

Be sure to visit Horton Park in Bradford, where you can see one of three huge fossil trees!

These Carboniferous giants were excavated from Clayton in the late 19th Century and placed on public display to "inspire future generations of geologists".

Looks like we're in for more glorious weather here in Yorkshire!
With extremely low water levels it's a great time to head out to a stream to see what you can find!

We recently spotted this lovely little Siphonodendron amongst the cobbles in a dry stream near Horton in Ribblesdale.

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Some beds are so distinctive we can use them to work out where we are in the sequence. One such bed is the Clayton Shell Bed.
Found in the Harrogate area this shell bed contains a wealth of marine species including these beautiful spiriferid brachiopods.

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Anyone for fossils and chips?

After work we had a takeaway sitting by the riverbank, followed by a quick look along the river beach - where we found this lovely little Stigmaria!

📍 Gargrave

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Geology Rocks! Dig up and handle amazing rocks and fossils, enjoy unique shows and tours, and explore the world beneath your feet.

Find out more about the Geology Rocks event below!
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Come along to meet Edestus - Huddersfield's mysterious ancient inhabitant!

How will you interpret this fossils? What was its function? Come by our stall to create your own reconstruction!

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It's been so warm in Yorkshire this week you could be forgiven for thinking you were in the Carboniferous, when tropical corals like this Lithostrotion were alive...

...Ok, so it's not really been tropical here this week, but it's been beautiful weather!

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A series of photos from Gilbert’s Pit in Charlton. A pair of hands holds a slab of the Woolwich Shell Bed, an iron oxide rich clay packed with white fossil shells

A series of photos from Gilbert’s Pit in Charlton. The Blackheath Beds, pavked with well rounded, black flint pebbles forms the top of the section at Gilbert’s Pit

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