Further to my previous posts regarding the fine Oxyteuthis speicmen I found at Speeton. I now think that it is more likely to be Aulacoteuthis, either A.ernsti...
Hello, I am involved in organising Yorkshire Geology Month for May 2005. If anyone fancies leading a trip to Speeton please contatc me. best wishes, Mike...
I have added some pictures of some Speeton bits and pieces. Particularly interesting are the pyritic inclusions in the fossil wood. I am no Botanist but I...
Nice pictures. I know it is hard to tell from photographs - but - are you sure that it is a crinoid and not an uncoiling ammonite; could the things in the wood...
The crinoid is pentamerous in cross section - so I'm certain about that. I had wondered about the wood inclusions - I'll do some research on wood borers. Have...
... that. ... wood ... REPLY - there are some pictures on page 398 of Shrock and Twenhofel - but the best place to look would be the "The Treatise". Which beds...
The wood was in a slipped block at the southerly end of Middle Cliff along with some Hibolites - so C beds? Are the slipped blocks on the beach from the C...
Hello, The wery large fallen blocks are I think in the C6 C7 C8 range of beds. Depending on how much as been washed away since I last visited. I certainly...
went back this weekend and the good stratified exposure had gone, but there were some mashed-up (slumped) bits to be seen. That's Speeton for you! cheers, Mike...
Hi All, I too met Jack once. He was very helpful and knew the area incredibly well. He managed pull out a couple of giant Belemnites for my lad, most grateful....
Saturday 8th October - joint afternoon lecture meeting with Yorkshire Geological Society - looking at the work of G W Lamplugh and the progress made in local...
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Hello, Sadly, I have heard that Professor John Neale died on Friday 20th January (2006). John worked as a lecturer at Hull University, specialising in the ...
I have posted some pictures of a fossil I found in the boulder clay at Mappleton, south of the MOD ramp. It certainly looks like vertebrate bone material and...
Hello, Because of recent messages that were not relevant to the group I have reluctantly altered the settings so that messages from new members will be...
... clay at ... vertebrate ... is ... something ... side ... along ... very ... attachment ... it ... contains ... few ... Speeton. ... clay ... believe ... of...
Hello all Speeton erratics 'what you may say' but it's true, on the Holderness coast you find material from the Upper,Middle,Lower Jurrasic, Cretaceous,...
Hello, Erratics derived from the Speeton Clay are not uncommon in Holderness. At certain places along the coast they are very common. I remember finding all 4...
Friends may wish to know that the Palaeontolgy Society has made freely avaialble back issues of its Journal - a number of which would be of interest to Speeton...
hello Jamie, Not really. The Speeton Clay is of Early Cretaceous age. There me some derived Jurassic fossils in bit, but I don't really know of any. It does...
hi, i am currently an A2 student in aid of some help with a geology project that i have to produce. i hope to analyse the tills on the coast and interpret the...
Hello Fred, The Till is exposed on the coast from Bridlington to Spurn. Not all places have safe access and never work with an incoming tide. There are three...
Hello Fred Were are you?. I am on the East Coast of Yorkshire - England, if I can help I will do so. You may find more information for our area in the UK at...
