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Guildford Museum

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Mostly chalk fossils, probably local, but unfortunately without any associated data. The few localities recorded include Pewley Down (Guildford), and Echo and Spills Lane chalk pits.

Although many common chalk fossils are not represented within the collection there are some good specimens of fish bones, scales, and teeth, as well as the palatal teeth of the fossil ray (shark) Ptychodus.

Other Cretaceous fossils are few, but include Viviparus sp. gastropods of Wealden age, and Lower Greensand oysters and fossil wood. Lower Tertiary fossils include one or two bivalves and bored driftwood from the London Clay - possibly local.

Some fragmentary fossils of Pleistocene mammals include the teeth of woolly mammoth, (?) straight tusked elephant, ox or horse, cave hyena or bear (jaw fragment).All of these are probably local.

Old labels refer to finds of mammoth teeth from the London Road Railway Cutting (c.1922), Stone Bridge Gravel Pits, Gooden Farm, Bramley (1928), and Shalford (1910).

Local rock specimens include those of chalk and Lower Greensand, especially iron rich sands from the Folkestone Beds collected at Runfold Sandpit.

Collectors:

Miss Roscoe (West Horsley), and unknown

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