Description

Published by Dovecote Press

138 x 204mm; Illustrated in colour throughout (1999, reprinted 2016)

Few places in the British Isles are as rich in fossils as Dorset, and the county is internationally famous as the source of some of the finest and rarest fossils in the world. Thanks to its remarkable geology and the instability of much of the coast, new and often important discoveries continue to be made, often by amateur collectors. Dorset’s fossil record stretches back over 200 million years to the start of the Jurassic period, and the fossilised remains of the creatures and plants that then flourished range from the humble ammonite to huge reptiles such as ichthyosaurs and dinosaurs, from fossilised wood to fish insects and primitive mammals.