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Amber - lit from below

A large piece of fossilised pine resin, 60 million years old. Although it appears to be as hard as stone, amber can be heated and shaped. This has made it very popular for use in jewellery making from ...

Ammonite, Schlotheimia angulata

Ammonite, Schlotheimia angulata. Lower Jurassic: Saltford Shale Member, Southam Cement Works. Collected by Jon D. Radley, Keeper of Geology.

Ammonite, Schlotheimia species

Ammonite, Schlotheimia. Lower Jurassic: Saltford Shale Member, Southam Cement Works. Donated by Mr Conway.

Ammonites, pipe nodule

Ammonites preserved within pipe-shaped nodule. Lower Jurassic: Saltford Shale Member, Southam Cement Works Quarry. Peter Blake collection.

Ammonites, pipe nodule - detail

Ammonites within pipe-shaped nodule - detail. Lower Jurassic: Saltford Shale Member, Southam Cement Works Quarry. Peter Blake collection.

Ammonites, pipe nodule - fore-shortened

Ammonites preserved within pipe-shaped nodule - image fore-shortened. Lower Jurassic: Rugby Limestone Southam Cement Works Quarry. Peter Blake collection.

Arrowhead

This is a leaf shaped flint arrowhead.

Beetle wing - detail

Beetle wing detail. Imprint of the hard upper wing, termed the elytron, of a beetle. Lower Jurassic: Wilmcote Limestone Member, Binton. The exceptionally fine grained nature of the Binton limestones ...

Beetle wing - detail

Beetle wing detail. Binton. Imprint of the hard upper wing, termed the elytron, of a beetle. Lower Jurassic: Wilmcote Limestone Member, Binton. The exceptionally fine grained nature of the Binton ...

Belemnites

Belemnites. Lower Jurassic: Charmouth Mudstone Formation, Fenny Compton railway cutting. These are an internal bone-like structure, composed of the mineral calcite, of a squid-like animal termed ...

Bivalve shell, Antiquilima antiquata

Bivalve shell, Antiquilima antiquata. Lower Jurassic: Blue Lias Formation, Harbury.

Bivalve shell, Gryphaea - body

Gryphaea. Lower Jurassic: ?Charmouth Mudstone, Stretton on Fosse. This shows the left valve which would have housed the oyster. The right valve formed a lid. These common fossils are widely known as ...

Bivalve shell, Gryphaea - lid

Gryphaea. Lower Jurassic: ?Charmouth Mudstone Formation, Stretton on Fosse.This shows both valves, including the flattened, lid-like right valve. These common fossils are widely known as 'Devil's Toe-nails'. Donated ...

Bivalve shell, Plagiostoma giganteum

Bivalve shell, Plagiostoma giganteum. Lower Jurassic: Blue Lias Formation, Harbury.

Brachiopod shells, Rhynchonella variabilis

Brachiopod shells, Rhynchonella variabilis. Lower Jurassic: Blue Lias Formation, Rugby. The Rev. Peter Bellinger Brodie collection - donated to the Warwickshire Natural History and Archaeological ...

Brachiopod shells, Stiphrothyris tumida

Brachiopod shells, Stiphrothyris tumida. Middle Jurassic: Clypeus Grit Member, Cross Hands Quarry, Long Compton. These shellfish anchored themsleves to other shells via a 'stalk' attached to the ...

Brachiopod shells, Tetrarhynchia

Brachiopod shells, Tetrarhynchia. Lower Jurassic: Marlstone Rock Formation, Burton Dassett Hills. Donated by M. Crane.

Calcite crystals

Calcite crystals on limestone. Lower Jurassic: ? Blue Lias Formation, Stockton.