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Accumulated mass death of the Fossil Oyster Praeexogyra Jurassic Coast – Frome Clay *CERTIFICATED

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Specimen: Praeexogyra hebridica var elongata

Age: Frome Clay formation, Jurassic

Location: Langton Herring, Dorset, UK

Size (picture scale cube=1cm): 117 x 111 x 26mm (4.61 x 4.37 x 1.02 inches)

 

The Frome Clay (Bathonian age) is the lowest bed exposed in the Weymouth anticline and the cliff, of some 3.65m in height, comprises an accumulated mass of the oyster Praeexogyra hebridica var elongata, uncemented in a soft marl matrix.

 

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