The Palaeo Post

This blog is dedicated to making palaeontology more accessible. Please check out www.bigjurassicfish.com. Created by a team at the Peterborough museum it is a website dedicated to the Oxford Clay of the Peterborough area, focusing on the giant fish, Leedsichthys problematicus.

Wednesday, 6 June 2018

Lapworth Museum (and a trip to Aust Cliff)

Last year, while visiting friends in Birmingham, we went along to the Lapworth Museum. Despite Birmingham not having the richest fossil reco...

My Collection #2

Small Kosmoceras jason on a piece of Oxford Clay with a tiny belemnite to the left. These fossils were collected from Must Farm Brick P...

Friday, 1 June 2018

Museums: Hessiches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt

This museum in Darmstadt, Germany, varies in its collections. We were only interested in their Palaeontological collection, although we did...

Messel Grube Pit

The first visit while I was in Germany was to the Messel Grube UNESCO World Heritage Site, near the town of Darmstadt. The strata within the...

Thursday, 31 May 2018

Museums: Hauff Museum, Holzmaden

In this series I would like to share photographs of fossils and exhibitions from museums that I have visited. There won't be a lot to sa...

Ichthyosaur Preparation Diary #1

BEFORE: The underside is the side that I will be preparing from, far too much rock for a small drill to get through. The first maj...

Dotternhausen and the Posidonia Schieffer

While on my third year residential fieldtrip to Southern Germany we visited to early Jurassic strata known as the Posidonia schieffer (shale...

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