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Abbey Wood Fossils
Abbey Wood is a geologicallocality situated in a park insouth-east London.
It is famous, world-wide, for itsfossil sharks teeth and shells.
It was first mentioned in 1872 byWilliam Whitaker of the BritishGeological Survey, who foundsharks teeth in the rabbit holes.
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What is Abbey Wood?What is Abbey Wood?
It contains a mixture of freshwater,estuarine and marine shells, as wellas sharks teeth, fish, crocodile, andturtle bones and rare mammal teeth.
The Abbey Wood Shell Bed is an ancient shell-bank, amixture of sand, shells and round black flint pebbles.
It was laid down in a shallow tropical sea, close to theshore, about 54.5 million years ago.
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How this works
Angel Shark
Squatina prima
Teeth & vertebrae
Picture of real specimens imaged on a flat bedscanner.
A white line between specimens means thatthere are two views of the same fossil.
Scale Bars - 5mm in Green - 1cm - in Orange.
Common (vernacular) name - in Yellow.
Scientific (Latin) name - in Green.
Part of animal - where not obvious - in Purple.
Reconstruction of the living animal.
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Sharks Teeth
Sand shark Striatolamia macrota
Sand shark Sylvestrilamia teretidens
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Shark Remains
Shark vertebra
Sand shark Gluekmanotodus heinzelini
Sand shark
Jaekelotodus robustus
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Shark and Rabbit Fish Teeth
Sand shark Palaeohypotodus
rutoti
Rabbit fish or Chimaeroid Amylodon eocaena
Lower plate
Rabbit fish or Chimaeroid Elasmodus hunteriUpper anterior plate
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Ray Remains
Angel Shark Squatina prima
Teeth & vertebrae
Guitar fish Hypolophodon sylvestris
Dermal denticles (top) & teeth
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Bony Fish Remains
Gar pike Lepisosteus suessionensis
Teeth, scale & vertebrae
Extinct wrasse
Phyllodus toliapicusUpper palate
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Bony Fish Remains
Lady fish Albula eppsi
Otoliths (ear stones) & upper palate
Sturgeon Acipenser toliapicus
Dermal scute
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Bony Fish Remains
Bowfin Amia barroisi
Lower jaws
Extinct wrasse
Diaphyodus sauvagiPaired upper and
lower palates
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Bony Fish Remains
Unidentified vertebrae
BarracudaPelamys palaeocenica
dentary (lower jaw) andquadrate bone
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Reptile Remains
Soft shelled turtleTrionyx
Carapace (upper shell)
Dwarf crocodileTeeth
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Mammal Remains
3rd molar tooth Hyopsodus wardi
RodentUpper incisor tooth
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Bivalve molluscs
Oyster
Ostrea bellovacina
Extinct ClamTellinocyclas tellinoides
Marsh clam
Corbicula cuneiformis var. forbesii
Extinct ClamCaestocorbula sp .
Nut clam
Nucula gracilenta.
Extinct Clam Lentidiumarnouldii
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Bivalve molluscs
Bittersweet cockleGlycymeris plumstediensis
Extinct cockle Nemocardium plumstedianum
Mussel Mylilus mitchelli
Ship wormTeredo sp.
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Gastropod molluscs
Moon snail
Euspira bassae
Banded nerite
Nerita semilugubris
Moon snail Euspira glaucinoides
Banded pea shellTheodoxus pisiformis
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Gastropod molluscs
Marsh creeper
Brotia melanoides
Freshwater snail
Melanopsisantidiluviana
Marsh creeper
Tympanotonus funatus
Auger shell Mirula plicatula
Clam sucker
Odostomia sp.
Freshwater snail
Bayania triticea
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Gastropod molluscs
Fissured false olivePseudoliva fissurata
Whelk Eocantharus
cf. latus
Whelk
Pseudoneptunea subnodosa
Whelk
Streptolathyrus sp.False limpet
Sigapatella echinulata
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Trace Fossils
Holes in oyster shell Entobia sp.
Burrowing sponge
Predation boringsOichnus paraboloides
Attributed to Euspira spp.
(below)
Mud pellet burrowOphiomorpha nodosa
Callianassid shrimp