Enormously excited to reveal my new book, beautifully illustrated in FULL COLOUR by the brilliant @bobnichollsart.bsky.social
Coming September 2025. Pre-order now! Published by @columbiaup.bsky.social
More details from the publisher:
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Collected the #bivalve Bositra buchii for #molluscmonday only a few millimetres across I find them really fascinating. It was proposed that they were bysally attached to floating organic matter the so-called "pendant" life habit. An abundant species found at many horizons within the Oxford Clay.
A video brilliantly produced by Palaeocast. I recorded at the Cerney Wick #excavation in 2024. I filmed my friend Richard using my drone, digging a stratigraphic test pit. I filmed many hours of #fieldwork from the dig site.Will be taking to the air quite a bit this year.
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Picked up another aesthetic crushed shell in shale Kosmo eras #ammonite from the Callovian ( Middle Jurassic ) for #molluscmonday with bositra buchi #bivalves nestled beside it.
Here's @deanrlomax.bsky.social with the 10m giant...
Absolutely fantastic.
Very nice.
Thanks Tom, great to read this.
Fantastic
Have Your Say outfossiling.com/2025/03/23/h... please help in homing Rutlands Ichthyosaur in a nationally significant exhibition.
#rutlandseadragon
On January 20th 2021, Joe Davis discovered something unusual at the Rutland Water Nature Reserve. Bringing in #palaeontologist Mark Evans #OTD 2021 who photographed the first photos of what we now know as the #rutlandseadragon must have been an incredible moment.
For #fossilfriday #otd 2022 the #RutlandSeaDragon was announced to the🌍
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Developing their own cool looking eco system.
That's wonderful, sounds as though they have eroded out nicely for you 🙂
#fossils and fresh air, picking up crushed flat pyritised #Kosmoceras #ammonites - an extinct marine #mollusc that has now been replaced by iron pyrite.
Historical fossil collections are fascinating,I'll be researching additional provenance in 2025 on this one. As those labeled N B Co pit (Northam Brickworks) are of particular interest. As Alfred Leeds one of history's greatest #palaeontologists discovered many #fossils from this pit #fossilfriday
#fossil #ThrowbackThursday with some stunning on display in the Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery's #jurassic #marinereptile gallery. Associated #ichthyosaur vertebrae found and donated by a fellow #museumvolunteer rescuing / supporting local #Palaeontological heritage.
Good work Ivor ⚒️
Kosmoceras for #molluscmonday the most abundant Peterborough Formation #ammonite Each species shows dimorphism (probably male/female) This tiny specimen is adorned with lappets at its aperture, and is thought to be male. Crushed flat in fissile shales dried nicely in my shed 🙂
Great example, could it be K.spinosum
Show your #fossil worm tubes for #serpulidsaturday always picking up these calcerous tubes from the Jurassic marine worm Genicularia vertebralis to give away.
#Gryphaea (Bilobissa) dilobotes #fossils huddled up after a fresh split on some Oxford Clay shales for #molluscmonday
Nicely prepped.
That's interesting maby a worn piece of turtle carapace or crocodile scute.
Yes, very cool. I often find Bison teeth from gravel quarries. Prepped this tooth from the Ipswichian stage. I believe the blue color is leeched into the tooth from mineralisation and associated with Vivianite and dentin.
Your welcome.
Stunning examples.
Very impressive.
Fantastic, I also like to collect #coprolites . I found a fish one last week, from the Peterborough Formation. Spotted a small vertebra inside.
