Wilby, Philip R.; Duff, Keith; Page, Kevin; Martin, Susan. 2008 Preserving the unpreservable : a lost world rediscovered at Christian Malford, UK. Geology Today, 24 (3). 95-98. 10.1111/j.1365-2451.2008.00666.x
Abstract
The small village of Christian Malford, Wiltshire (UK) is known to palaeontologists the world over because of the chance discovery of an astonishing fossil bonanza in the mid-nineteenth century. Pits in the Jurassic Oxford Clay yielded thousands of specimens of exquisitely preserved ammonites, fish and crustaceans, but became most famous for squid-like cephalopods and belemnites (collectively termed coleoids) with fossilized soft-parts. The precise location of the find has remained obscure, until now, and a new attempt is underway to understand the ancient environment that triggered this unusual preservation.
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