After visiting Bempton we moved on to Speeton ...lots of belamnites and ammonites...
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Scratting in the clay...glad it was dry!
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Belamnites....
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Ammonite.
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The detail.....The Speeton Clay Formation is a highly fossiliferous formation that yields a wide range of Lower Cretaceous fossils.
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Simbirskites ammonite.
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Hibolites jaculum (and others) and Acroteuthis lateralis belemnite rostrums.
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Serpula worm cast scars on an Hibolites jaculum belemnite rostrum.
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Exogyra oysters, commonly confused with Gryphea (also found in the Speeton Clay Formation).
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| Pyritised burrows (<3mm length) in in the Speeton Clay. |
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