In 2015, The whole lot Dinosaur group members visited Wren’s Nest. It is a nature reserve and SSSI (Particular Website of Scientific Curiosity). The uncovered strata dates from the Silurian and it is filled with fossils together with the occasional trilobite. While exploring this location, {a photograph} was taken of a trilobite tribute. A plaque honouring the “Dudley bug” (Calymene blumenbachii).
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Remembering the Trilobite
The Trilobita had been remarkably considerable and various in the course of the Palaeozoic. These historic marine arthropods originated within the Cambrian. The final of their type are believed to have turn out to be extinct on the finish of the Permian.
The considerable fossils to be discovered on the Wren’s Nest nature reserve characterize life on a Silurian reef roughly 420 million years in the past. Staff members have visited Wren’s Nest a number of occasions. This location was designated Britain’s first Nationwide Nature Reserve for geology (1956).
The motif is an inscription it reads:
“Scour the bottom for geological litter my toes drenched in an historic sea.”
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The image (above) exhibits a CollectA trilobite mannequin.
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Wren’s Nest Nature Reserve
Over 700 several types of fossil are identified from Wren’s Nest. Over eighty are distinctive to this location and located nowhere else on the planet.
A spokesperson from The whole lot Dinosaur commented:
“Wren’s Nest is a geological gem. We advocate a go to, particularly within the early summer season months previous to the varsity holidays. Within the peak of summer season this location can get extraordinarily busy and there may be restricted close by parking”
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