Book writing at Yorkshire Fossil Festival

Whitby Jet

This weekend was spent as three lovely days at the Yorkshire Fossil Festival, promoting the book (click here to pre-order!) and drawing huge banners of ammonites with children and grown-ups alike.

One of the pages that was "missing" in Saltwick was about the Whitby Plant Beds - a section of cliff with layers preserving flora fossils. Fortunately, the days were spent alongside experts from the Leeds University geoscience staff and the blokes from Hidden Horizons. I also bought a book specifically about Yorkshore flora (hoorah! Just what I needed!) from the The Palaeontological Association.  

Since I rarely find plant fossils it's a little bit of a blank spot in my own knowledge. So I picked the brains of my neighbours about the plant beds and common fossils. Turns out I did have a couple fossils - mainly rootlets of horsetail, and a photo of a plant root I found. Plus, Hidden Horizons had a great horsetail for me to sketch!

Horsetail fossil, and root impression

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