Dineley, D. & Metcalf, S. GCR Editor: D. Palmer. 1999. Fossil Fishes of Great Britain. Geological Conservation Review Series No. 16. JNCC, Peterborough, ISBN 1 86107 470 0. The original source material for these web pages has been made available by the JNCC under the Open Government Licence 3.0. Full details in the JNCC Open Data Policy

Fish and amphibian sites

Most of the listed sites cannot serve as candidates for the GCR since they have been lost to landfill and building. For the most part, only coastal sites could be considered, and the richness and accessibility of the Dorset coast is reflected in the choice of the following two GCR sites:

  1. Kimmeridge Bay (Gaulter Gap-Broad Bench; [SY 898 789]–[SY 908 787]). Late Jurassic (Early Kimmeridgian), Kimmeridge Clay.
  2. Durlston Bay, Dorset [SZ 034 780]. Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous (Portlandian -Berriasian), Portland Stone-Upper Purbeck Beds.

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