Fossil Collecting in Lancashire, Geological Location Guides

Newhay Quarry is full of Calamities (fossil roots), brachiopods, and if your very lucky insects or fish remains. One of the most interesting finds at this site, is the superb trace fossils, including ripple marks, worm burrows, and 'fish marks'.

Besom Hill

Besom Hill at first sight can seem fairly poor for fossils, but if you can find the thin 'Marine Bed', you will be sure you change your mind! This Marine Band is Highly Fossiliferious and Fish Teeth, Scales, Fin Spines and other remains, Goniatites, Bivalves are rich within that layer.

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.

Lancashire

	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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