Elie offers two contrasting places to look for Carboniferous fossils: the sand-covered beds of Elie Shore and the rocky exposures at Wood Haven. Shells and crinoid fragments record ancient seas, while nearby volcanic necks reveal how later eruptions disrupted the sedimentary rocks. Carboniferous, Cliffs and Foreshore, Rating: ♦♦♦♦
Ostracods are small, shelled crustaceans that are still living today. Their fossil record stretches back into the Cambrian period. These little animals range in size from below a millimetre to a few centimetres, but most […]
Flint meal is a rich source of siliceous microfossils. The material is often packed with sponge spicules, as well as foraminifera and ostracods. To collect flint meal unweathered, fresh flints recently eroded out of chalk […]
Microfossils can be obtained from the Grey Chalk Subgroup (formerly the Lower Chalk, minus the Plenus Marls) with great ease. This rock has a high clay content in comparison with the whiter chalks and breaks […]
