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Description: | Suite illustrating sedimentology and faunas associated with Jurassic carbonate and evaporite rocks of Dorset, England.
Includes:
Portland oolite
Algal laminates with gypsum pseudomorphs
Algal stromatolites
Osmington oolites
'Trigonia' (fossil bivalve) moulds
Fragment of fossilised wood
Fragment of an ammonite
Fragments of 'Aptyxilla' (fossil turret shell)
Fossil oyster shell
Fossil brachiopods crystalised with aragonite
Some specimens are from Osmington Mills [Weymouth, Dorset] and Bacon Hole [Lulworth Cove, Dorset]. Ex Dundee University Geology Department Collection (transferred 1988-1989?) | Subjects: | Geology; Palaeontology | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Address: | University of Glasgow,
University Avenue,
G12 8QQ | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Contributor: | Ex Dundee University Geology Department Collection (transferred 1988-1989?) | Identifier: | H-11 |
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