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SMCC > Collections > Geology > Index of Tertiary exhibits

Index of local fossils, rocks and minerals found within museums in the county

 

Description of specimen and place of origin followed by bracketed number which refers to the museum where the specimen is stored.

Tertiary:

Barton Beds

  • sands from Barton Beds Surrey Heath area nr.Camberley (7)
  • gravels and pale coloured sands Surrey Heath (7)

Bracklesham Beds

  • Bracklesham Beds fossils Bagshot-Camberley area (18)
  • fish (shark) tooth Carcharodon auriculatus ?local Surrey Heath (7)
  • ferruginous sands ?Bracklesham Beds Camberley area (7)
  • variable coloured sands Hawley Common, Surrey Heath (7)
  • glauconitic sands ?Surrey Heath (7)
  • brick clay Bagshot (7)
  • 'iron pan' Camberley (7)

Bagshot Sands

  • plant remains in clay ?Bagshot Beds Camberley area (7)
  • fossil wood in clay; Weybridge (5)
  • soft sandstone Camberley area (7)
  • sands Camberley area (7)

Claygate Beds

  • Claygate Beds fossils Surrey (18)

London Clay

  • bivalve Arctica planata Northdown, Guildford (12)
  • bivalve Glycimeris brevirostris ?Guildford-Hogs Back area ? (8)
  • bivalve Pentunculina sp. ?NW Surrey (7)
  • bivalve ?Cytherea sp. ?NW Surrey(8)
  • bivalve Semimodiola elegans ?NW Surrey (7)
  • bivalve Teredina sp. in fossil wood ?NW Surrey(8)
  • bivalve Teredina sp. in fossil wood?Weybridge area (5)
  • bivalve Teredina sp. ?NW Surrey (7)
  • gastropod Fusinus ?wetherelli ?NW Surrey (7)
  • crinoid ?Isselcrinus sp. Guildford-Hogs Back (13)
  • worm Ditrupa sp. ?Weybridge area (5)
  • wood in septarian nodule ?Staines area (3)
  • London Clay fossils Surrey (18)
  • septarian nodule Surrey (7)
  • septarian with pyrite Surrey poss.Weybridge area (5)
  • sample of clay Surrey Heath area (7)

Woolwich and Reading Beds

  • bivalve(s) 'Cyrena sp.' Guildford-Godalming by-pass (Hogs Back) (13)
  • gastropods Brotia sp., Potamides sp. Guildford-Godalming by-pass (Hogs-Back) (13)
  • fossils from Headley (21)
  • samples of Reading Beds (clays and sands) Surrey (18)

Thanet Beds

  • Thanet Beds sands Surrey (18)

 

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