Continental trace fossils and museum exhibits - Geological Curators ...

Figure 2. Life size reconstruction of the “Cheshire Beast” and associated art works by Year 9 pupils of the GrangeSchool, Runcorn on display in the School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester.Cumbria, Cheshire, the Midlands, Somerset and southDevon, all of which are conserved, and await futureresearch. A large database of photographs of Jurassicichnofabrics (core samples) from North Sea oilfieldsalso exists in departmental Ph.D. theses (e.g., Taylor1991; Martin 1993; Blight 1998; Burns 1998).Visitors are welcome to access the collections. Thiscan be arranged by contacting the curator, MandyEdwards, at the address above.ReferencesANDERSON, L.I. 1996. Taphonomy and Taxonomy ofPalaeozoic Xiphosura. Unpublished Ph.D. thesis,University of Manchester, Manchester.ANDERSON, L.I., DUNLOP, J.A., HORROCKS,C.A.,WINKELMAN. H.M. and EAGAR, R.M.C.1997. Exceptionally preserved fossils fromBickershaw, Lancashire, UK (Upper CarboniferousWestphalian A (Langsettian)). Geological Journal32, 197-210.BINNEY, E.W. 1856. On some footmarks in theMillstone Grit of Tintwhistle, Cheshire. QuarterlyJournal of the Geological Society 12, 350-354.BLIGHT, R. 1998. A Sequence Stratigraphic andIchnofabric Analysis of the Upper Jurassic Sgiathand Piper formations, Tartan Field, Outer MorayFirth. Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University ofManchester, Manchester.BROADHURST, F.M., HARDY, P.G and SIMPSON,I.M. 1980. Seasonal sedimentation in UpperCarboniferous of England. Journal of Geology 88,639-651.BURNS, F. 1998. Ichnofabric and Diagenetic Signatureof Key Stratal Surfaces: Upper Jurassic FulmarFormation, Central North Sea, UKCS. UnpublishedPh.D. thesis, University of Manchester, Manchester.EAGAR, R.M.C., BAINES, J.G., COLLINSON, J.D.,HARDY, P.G, OKOLO, S.A. and POLLARD, J.E.1985. Trace fossil assemblages and their occurrencein Silesian (mid-Carboniferous) deltaic sediments ofthe Central Pennine Basin, England. In Curran, H.A.(ed.). Biogenic Sedimentary Structures: Their Use ininterpreting Depositional Environments. Society ofEconomic Paleontologists and Mineralogists SpecialPublication 35, 99-149.GOLDRING, R. and POLLARD, J.E. 1995. A reevaluationof Ophiomorpha burrows in the Wealdenof southern England. Cretaceous Research 16, 665-680.GOLDRING, R., POLLARD, J.E. and TAYLOR, A.M.1991. Anconichnus horizontalis: a pervasiveichnofabric forming trace fossil in post-Paleozoicoffshore siliciclastic facies. Palaios 6, 250-263.-245-