CRETACEOUS WEALDEN BONE BED - About 130 million years old - Sussex
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About 130 million years old
About 130 million years old
(Lower Cretaceous period)
Sussex
A small slab of fine-grained sandstone from the Weald Clay Group containing scales, vertebrae and other bones of sharks and fish.
Sussex
A small slab of fine-grained sandstone from the Weald Clay Group containing scales, vertebrae and other bones of sharks and fish.
It was deposited on a coastline at a time when the nearby land was populated by many species of dinosaurs.
This specimen is from an old collection and was collected from a Sussex brick pit in the 1980s. The precise provenance is not known.
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Size: approx. 12 x 11 x 3 centimetres
Weight: 409 grams
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