Some of our area's unique geological features and the processes that occurred to form them are: The fossil content of local limestone shows the diversity of life in the late Ordovician period.

Although local shales typically contain fewer fossils than the fossil-rich limestone with which they are interlayered, they nevertheless preserve valuable information about where the sediments came ...

was discovered in limestone during a 2018 excavation in southern Germany. The paper concludes: "Ophiactis hex seems to represent the first fossil case of a fissiparous ophiuroid. It suggests that ...

PhD student Amelia Penny spotted its sharp-toothed jaw in a layer of ancient limestone on Skye's coast ... up with detailed examination of the fossil skeleton. Those studies, published in the ...