1. Fossils of the Yorkshire Coast
Dr Liam Herringshaw -

2. The F Word What are fossils? What is palaeontology?
Why are fossils important?

3. What are fossils? Petrified remains of old, dead organisms
(Also trace fossils)
Most things don’t get fossilized
Best to live in the sea
Best to have a hard shell

4. Future coastal fossils?

5. The fossilization filter

6. Smith, Phillips & Yorkshire
Fossils & Strata
Smith, Phillips & Yorkshire

7. Yorkshire Coast Fossils
What, Where
& Why?

8. Geology of the Yorkshire Coast
Mesozoic – middle life

10. The Early Jurassic: Redcar – Ravenscar
Redcar Mudstone Formation
Staithes Sandstone Formation
Cleveland Ironstone Formation
Whitby Mudstone Formation

11. “The Lias”

12. Redcar Mudstone Formation
Robin Hood's Bay
Redcar
Earliest Jurassic unit on Yorkshire Coast
- Divided into 4 members

13. Redcar Rocks

14. Robin Hood's Bay

15. Gryphaea arcuata, an Early Jurassic 'oyster'
Common fossils
Gryphaea arcuata, an Early Jurassic 'oyster'

16. Rhizocorallium, Boggle Hole
Trace fossils
Rhizocorallium, Boggle Hole

17. Sandstones & Ironstones
Staithes
Sandstones & Ironstones

18. Staithes to Old Nab

19. Sandstones with cross-stratification
Staithes Sandstone Fm
Sandstones with cross-stratification
Burrowed siltstones

20. Cleveland Ironstone Formation
Transition from SSF to CIF, Penny Nab

21. Fossils
Belemnites, bivalves,
woody debris

22. Ironstone burrows
Rhizocorallium,
Old Nab

23. Jet-powered Whitby Early Jurassic Whitby Mudstone Formation
Grey Shales
Black Shales
Alum Shales

24. Bituminous → Alum Shales
Whitby–Saltwick Nab
Bituminous → Alum Shales

25. The Jet Rock – very high organic content
Fossil fuel!
The Jet Rock – very high organic content

26. Jet: a puzzle

27. Ammonites
Hildoceras
Dactylioceras
Harpoceras

28. Bivalves Dacryomya ovum Alum shale 'nut shell' Pseudomytiloides dubius
The dubious, false mussel-like clam!

29. Marine mudstone monsters!
Temnodontosaurus crassimanus

30. Middle Jurassic

31. Middle Jurassic: shallow and sandy

32. World
Famous
Fossil
Plants

33. Soils, coals, roots
Yons Nab, Cayton Bay

34. Dinoturbation
Cloughton Wyke

36. Shallow marine burrows
Diplocraterion, Cloughton Wyke

37. There are Jurassic burrows in the walls of the museum!
Traces of Yorkshire
There are Jurassic burrows in the walls of the museum!

38. Upper Jurassic

39. Filey Brigg
Birdsall Calcareous Grit:
wedge of tough, limy sandstone

40. Filey Brigg stratigraphy
Coarse-grained
Limestones-sandstones
Oolites
Shelly fossils
Trace fossils

41. Big Brigg burrows!

42. Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary somewhere in Filey Bay

43. Cretaceous: Chalk on the board

44. Speeton Clay fossils
Ammonites, crustaceans, gastropods

45. Chalk Group
Very fine-grained shelly limestones

46. Belemnites in red chalk
Neohibolites

47. Hard northern chalk!

48. Flamborough Sponge Beds
10m-thick sponge-rich interval
(near Sewerby)

49. Chalk fossils
Inoceramid bivalves
D, E, from Flamborough

50. Chalk fossils
Echinoids
(sea urchins)
Dane's Dyke- Sewerby

51. end-Cretaceous

52. Ice Age!

53. The glacial coast

54. Glacial erratics

55. Further info Fossilhub: www.fossilhub.org Intro To Fossils
Sat. 20th Feb. 2016
Yorkshire Fossil Festival
Sept. 16th-18th 2016
Scarborough

56. Develop your interest