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UK & Ireland, England
Aust Cliff, Severn Estuary
Rhaetian bone bed
Fossil site, tidal Source-confirmed findsLegal to collect
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Fossils
Shark teeth
Crystals and mineralsAlso reported: Lissodus), coprolites.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0), Dominik Vogt (CC BY-SA 3.0), Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
Rockhounding locality: red and grey Triassic cliff under the old Severn Bridge, its bone bed yielding marine reptile fragments since the early 1800s
Aust Cliff is a textbook Rhaetic bone bed locality; ichthyosaur and plesiosaur bone, fish teeth and coprolites documented in the geological literature
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Second highest tidal range on EarthDangerous mud, sheer unstable cliff, stay off the estuary flats
Keep exploring nearby
More spots in this area.