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Description: | The Geology collection of over 2,500 specimens includes plant and animal fossils of the Wealden area, including the collections made locally by Teilhard de Chardin. Philip Rufford and Samuel Beckles. The Wealden plants in Rufford's collection are particularly important, and include specimens described as the finest in the country. Hastings has long been a classic site for Iguanodon remains, and the Museum holds many bones of the dinosaur as well as footprints from the Cretaceous rocks at Fairlight and Galley Hill. Other animals of the period that are well represented in the collection are the fish Lepidotus Mantelli, the crocodile Goniophilis Crassidens, and the Hybodant shark species. There is also a small reserve collection of minerals from around the world. | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Johns Place
Bohemia Road
Hastings,
TN34 1ET | FAX: | 01424 781165 | Telephone: | 01424 781155 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:4766 | Go to resource |
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