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Successful Quarry-Tour

Ambushed by a school holiday program, I had the pleasure of being interviewed by a local reporter. (See top left holding a perfect recently extracted Parkinsonia ammonite).

A summary of article: - at 27degress celsius, in a quiet abandoned quarry, 180million years ago a tropical Jura ocean filled with ammonites, belemnites, shells and snails covered the region. These fossils are now be found exposed. Ammonites and Belemnites can be found up 70cm long. A now Eldorado for palaeontologists who collect these fossils due to there fantastic preservation. The finds are predominately found within the dogger formation (brown Jura) with the middle Malm (white Jura) located above. A man named Felix Schmidt a Geologist from New Zealand is currently inhabiting the Quarry. He’s has been granted access to one of the many claims to try his luck in extracting some pristine specimens. The children left with buckets full, filled within 10mins, most finds were belemnites and ammonites. A very interesting visit for the children.