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The sea regularly erodes a cliff of spoil from the now closed nearby Michael Coal Pit. This cliff contains many different carboniferous beds of which some highly fossiliferious plant and marine bands can be found scattered along the foreshore.


Giant millipede tracks, tree trunks in life position and many other fossils can be found to the South West of the pretty fishing village of Crail.


The volcanic rocks at Kinghorn are carboniferous sedimentary with Pyroclastic rocks and basalt flows intebedded. Within these rocks, corals and shells can be found.


There is plenty to see at St Monans, including raised beaches, an excellent example of a syncline, bedding planes packed with trace fossils, and whole layers of rock full of fossil corals and crinoids.


Some excellent Carboniferous plant fossils can be found at Anstruther if you can find the right type of rock and if you have the strength and determination to break them open and carry them off the beach.


There are two locations for fossils at Elie, the first is Elie Shore where during scouring conditions and winter months Brachiopods, Bivalves, Sponges and Trilobite fragments can be found. Nearby Wood Haven rocks also contain fossils.


 

Cliff
Fossils collected direct from cliff face
Foreshore
Fossils collected from the foreshore
Cliff/Foreshore
Fossils collected from the cliff and foreshore
Quarry
Location is a quarry or pit
Stream
Fossils collected from a stream or river bed,
Field
Fossils collected from a farm field
Cutting
Fossils collected from road or railway cutting.
Scree Slope
Fossils collected from hill or mountain scree slope.
Rock Outcrop
Fossils collected from rock outcrops.
Lake / Reservoir
Fossils collected from lake or reservoir banks.
Microfossils
Samples taken back for processing microfossils.

 

Mid Scotland

Fossils are common
Fossils often found
Fossils are not common
Fossils rarely found
Site protected, no collecting permitted, or no access to beach

Quaternary
Neogene
Palaeogene

Cretaceous
Jurassic
Triassic
Permian
Carboniferous
Devonian
Silurian
Ordovician
Cambrian / Pre Cambrian

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Plant Fossils of the British Coal Measures

Richly illustrated and with identification keys, this guide will enable determination of most of the commonly encountered plant and fossils from the Coal Measures. Written by C.J. Cleal and B.A. Thomas, 29 plates, 94 text-figs, 1994.

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Midland Valley of Scotland

Richly illustrated and with identification keys, this guide will enable determination of most of the commonly encountered plant and fossils from the Coal Measures. Written by C.J. Cleal and B.A. Thomas, 29 plates, 94 text-figs, 1994.

UKGE CODE: BK0022
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