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Whitecliff Bay, Isle of Wight

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Shark teethShark teeth

Also reported: Nummulites, gastropods and bivalves through a complete Palaeogene succession.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Dominik Vogt (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Why this spot

Eocene-Oligocene (Bracklesham, Barton, Headon)

Textbook Palaeogene section on Wight's east coast.

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