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Lavernock Point fossils, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

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Also reported: bivalves and fish remains in the foreshore beds.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Why this spot

Triassic-Jurassic

Rhaetic bone-bed locality.

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