Seminar 8 has been delivered in two parts. I start with a demonstration of some of the fossils in my own personal collection, most of which I have collected myself during various field trips from studying GSCE geology back in 1991 through to field trips in more recent years. There are also a few fossils I have either received as gifts from relatives / friends and even a couple I have bought, either because I particularly liked the look of them or I knew I was not likely to be visiting anywhere to acquire an example myself or a combination of the two. Most of the specimens are not of museum quality but are typical of the type of fossils you can (or could in some cases) collect from the various locations described. Most if not all of the fossil groups represented in the slides will be talked about in more detail during subsequent Seminars on the topic of Palaeontology.
I should note, unless the collection locations are publicly accessible, e.g. beach locations in Dorset) and their is no ban on collecting specimens that any access or collecting should only be done with permission of the landowner. Safety is also important, particularly with working and even closed quarries. All visits to quarries, particularly working ones, was with permission and as part of a party of geologists.
The second part of Seminar 8 looks at a group of fossils that were important during the Palaeozoic Era (Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian Carboniferous and Permian periods), say 542 to 252 Million years ago. This is the Trilobites, a now extinct group of Marine Arthropods.
Although out of sequence, Seminar 7 will be posted as soon as I get the file re-recorded on Lync.
The next planned Seminar will be another new one, number 19 which will cover The Brachiopods a group of marine twin-shelled organisms which may look superficially like bivalves (which are molluscs) but have a totally different morphology.
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