Fossils of the Builth-Llandrindod Inlier
Last updated: 28 September 2006
Joe Botting has been interested in ancient fossils in the area known as The Builth-Llandrindod Inlier since he was a student at Cambridge. Click through these pictures to see some of the fossils he has unearthed in Mid Wales
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Joe Botting
There are real ones! We put a few Conspicillum bipunctatum in one case, but the display with the pictures included SEM stubs with minute latex casts of the originals - i.e. the things in the photos. When looking at the fossils themselves you get too much shadow in the holes on the rock surface, so we have to take casts to be able to see the details. The problem is, of course, that an individual ostracode is often about 0.2 mm long... not very memorable in an ordinary display! :-)
Wed Jan 23 09:23:34 2008
Emily Moran, Newcastle
Is there real ostracodes in the museum, or are there just SEM images?I couldnt remember from when I visited!
Mon Jan 7 08:44:54 2008
Joe Botting
Hi Dafydd.It's the roughly triangular region from Builth Wells to Llandrindod and Llandegley - a total of about 50 square kilometers. You can normally see the boundary of the inlier by the topography - the Ordovician rocks form rather craggy, irregular high ground, with the surrounding Silurian being flat or rounded.
Fri Oct 6 09:25:50 2006
Dafydd Ladd from Beulah
Where exactly is this area? A map would be useful.
Mon Oct 2 11:00:45 2006
Are you a fossil hunter in Mid Wales? Send us your pictures and we'll add them to the site!
