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Pinhay Bay
Collecting Guide


(Collecting from the Chak) - 2002

It is more difficult to find fossils in the Lias here than Chippel Bay, the beds are higher up. However past cliff falls have yielded large ammonites and large nautilus. Many fossils can be collected from the chalk at Pinhay. The chalk here ranges from upper, middle and lower. Echinoids, Shells, Crinoids have all been collected. A range of fossils can also be found from the Upper Greensand Chert beds, though these are very poorly preserved.

West of Seven Rock Point, higher and younger rocks field the ammonite Psiloceras, these also occurs at the base of the Jurassicc. At the head of Pinhay Bay, Triassic beds exposed on the foreshore can yield a range of bivalves.



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