Fossiliam: Dr Liam Herringshaw
After an interval of many months, I’ve been prompted to finally produce a fifth part of Chalking With Dinosaurs, featuring me making footprints in the sands of Scarborough’s South Bay, and then hunting dinosaur footprints in the rocks of the South Cliff: The video features as part of my live ‘Chalking With Dinosaurs’ talks at the Lyme Regis Virtual Fossil...
The slides for my class on June 4th 2017 can be found (as a PDF) here: 2017_Intro_Fossils Useful websites include these: Fossil Hunting in the UK Hidden Horizons – fossil-hunting trips in North Yorkshire NHM Fossil Explorer app NHM British Fossils guides NHM online fossil identification help Trilobites The Palaeontological Association
The PowerPoint slides for my class on February 6th can be downloaded here: 2016_FossilsYorksCoast_SML Useful links Fossil hunting in North Yorkshire (UK Fossils Network guide) Lower Jurassic of Yorkshire (Geological Conservation Review guide) Middle Jurassic of Yorkshire (Geological Conservation Review guide) Upper Jurassic of Yorkshire (Geological Conservation Review guide) Yorkshire’s Jurassic Park (National Trust) Fossils & Geology (Whitby Museum) Fossils...
The PowerPoint slides for my 2015 one-day course on the Geological History of Britain can be downloaded here: 1. Introduction: 2015_GHB_Part1 2. Cainozoic: 2015_GHB_Part2 3. Mesozoic: 2015_GHB_Part3 4. Palaeozoic: 2015_GHB_Part4 5. Proterozoic & Archaean: 2015_GHB_Part5 To view the files I produced for my 2012 evening class on the Geological History of Britain, which provide more detail on many of the...
Notes (pdf) for my University of York CLL class “An Introduction to Fossils” on Nov. 29th: 2014_Intro_Fossils Useful links The challenges of taxonomy, or why reptiles don’t exist any more (article from The Conversation). Trilobites.info – a marvellous and comprehensive website devoted to understanding trilobites. The Burgess Shale – Cambrian lagerstatte website from the Royal Ontario Museum (including a Virtual...
Fossils & Palaeontology Lecture slides: 2013_IntroGeol_fossils_Lect8 (pdf) or 2013_IntroGeol_fossils_Lect8_SML (ppt) 3D Fossils (new project led by the British Geological Survey) British Fossils (book by Peter Doyle) St Hilda’s ammonite, Hildoceras bifrons (NHM website) The Palaeontological Association (UK-based organization promoting palaeontological science) Palaeontology Online (articles about the cutting edge of fossil research, written by palaeontologists) Palaeocast (Palaeontology podcasts and photos on...
TRACE FOSSILS The lecture presentation: 2013_TrackingAncientLife_SML Charles Darwin – worms and vegetable mould (from Darwin Online) Darwin’s wormstone at Down House, Kent. Phil Manning’s Dinosaur CSI website. An amazing dinosaur trackway site in Bolivia. Dinosaur speed calculator (from the University of Sheffield) Why that previous theory might be wrong! (from Heinrich Mallison, Berlin) How fast did ancient people run? (My...
