Fossil
Category
Natural History / Geology
Date
Unknown
Materials
Fossil in chalk matrix
Measurements
142 mm (L); 104 mm (W); 39 mm (D)
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Biddulph Grange Garden, Staffordshire
NT 104428
Summary
Fossil, good specimen of Cretaceous (chalk period) fossil bivalve mollusc ?'Spondylus' sp. and oyster 'Ostrea' sp.
Provenance
Believed to have been recovered from the geological gallery at Biddulph by John Stanley (formerly of Keele University Geological Department) circa 1965 and donated to the Trust in 1988.