palaeontology – FossilHub

February 13, 2023

New paper for 2023!

Together with my excellent friend and colleague Dr Bryony Caswell, I have written a paper in a new Special Publication of the Geological Society (volume 529) on the Conservation Palaeobiology of Marine Ecosystems. We looked at the types of fossil burrows and bivalves preserved in the early Jurassic rocks of North Yorkshire, especially at Runswick Bay and Kettleness; East Cliff...

Outreach/Research

January 1, 2023

My ’22 Top Ten – 11. Crocodile Rock

“Is it a skull?” we asked, disbelievingly. “A crocodile, perhaps?”

Outreach/Research

December 29, 2022

My ’22 Top Ten – 2. Lost Beasts of the North

On Sunday March 13th 2022, as part of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society and Yorkshire Geological Society symposium ‘Lost Beasts of the North’, supported by the Curry Fund of the Geologists’ Association, and celebrating the bicentenary of the discovery of Kirkdale Cave, I took to the lectern in St Gregory’s Minster and pretended to be William Buckland: “Account of an assemblage...

Outreach

December 26, 2022

My ’22 Top Ten – 6. The Family Tree

In July, I went to Clayton St John Primary School in Bradford, to run a Yorkshire Fossils class. This was part of my Stratum Young project, supported by the Geoscience Communications Fund of the Yorkshire Geological Society, and it was lovely to go in and work with the children to discuss, describe and draw the fossils they can find in...

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December 23, 2022

My ’22 Top Ten – 8. Yorkshire Fossil Festival

At some point I should probably write a proper blogpost about how marvellous the 2022 Yorkshire Fossil Festival, which I organized in Scarborough over the weekend of September 16th to 18th, was. Now is not that point. Instead, I will refer you to the image above; the fact that we won an award for excellence in geological education from the...

Outreach

March 19, 2022

Jurassic geology of Yons Nab, North Yorkshire

I was going through some papers in the loft and I came across a sedimentary log of Yons Nab, North Yorkshire, which I drew up in 2009 after visiting the site with Prof. Duncan McIlroy. As I’m never going to do anything with it, I thought I’d simply publish it here. If you’d like to explore the Middle and Upper...

Outreach/Research/Teaching

October 24, 2020

Chalking With Dinosaurs, part 5

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...

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Tag: palaeontology