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Abbey Wood Fossils
Abbey Wood is a geological locality situated in a park in south-east London.
It is famous, world-wide, for its fossil sharks’ teeth and shells.
It was first mentioned in 1872 by William Whitaker of the British Geological Survey, who found sharks’ teeth in the rabbit holes.
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What is Abbey Wood?What is Abbey Wood?
It contains a mixture of freshwater, estuarine and marine shells, as well as sharks’ teeth, fish, crocodile, and turtle bones and rare mammal teeth.
The Abbey Wood Shell Bed is an ancient shell-bank, a mixture of sand, shells and round black flint pebbles.
It was laid down in a shallow tropical sea, close to the shore, about 54.5 million years ago.
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How this works
Angel Shark
Squatina prima
Teeth & vertebrae
Picture of real specimens imaged on a flat bed scanner.
A white line between specimens means that there are two views of the same fossil.
Scale Bars -5mm in Green - 1cm - in Orange.
Common (vernacular) name -in Yellow.
Scientific (Latin) name -in Green.
Part of animal - where not obvious -in Purple.
Reconstruction of the living animal.
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Sharks’ Teeth
Sand sharkStriatolamia macrota
Sand sharkSylvestrilamia teretidens
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Shark Remains
Shark vertebra
Sand sharkGluekmanotodus heinzelini
Sand sharkJaekelotodus robustus
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Shark and Rabbit Fish Teeth
Sand sharkPalaeohypotodus
rutoti
Rabbit fish or ChimaeroidAmylodon eocaena
Lower plate
Rabbit fish or ChimaeroidElasmodus hunteriUpper anterior plate
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Ray Remains
Angel SharkSquatina prima
Teeth & vertebrae
Guitar fishHypolophodon sylvestris
Dermal denticles (top) & teeth
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Bony Fish Remains
Gar pikeLepisosteus suessionensisTeeth, scale & vertebrae
Extinct wrassePhyllodus toliapicus
Upper palate
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Bony Fish Remains
Lady fishAlbula eppsi
Otoliths (ear stones) & upper palate
SturgeonAcipenser toliapicus
Dermal scute
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Bony Fish Remains
Bowfin Amia barroisi Lower jaws
Extinct wrasseDiaphyodus sauvagi
Paired upper andlower palates
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Bony Fish Remains
Unidentified vertebrae
BarracudaPelamys palaeocenica
dentary (lower jaw) and quadrate bone
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Reptile Remains
Soft shelled turtle Trionyx
Carapace (upper shell)
Dwarf crocodile Teeth
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Mammal Remains
3rd molar toothHyopsodus wardi
RodentUpper incisor tooth
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Bivalve molluscs
OysterOstrea bellovacina
Extinct ClamTellinocyclas tellinoides
Marsh clam Corbicula cuneiformis var. forbesii
Extinct ClamCaestocorbula sp.
Nut clamNucula gracilenta.
Extinct ClamLentidium arnouldii
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Bivalve molluscs
Bittersweet cockleGlycymeris plumstediensis
Extinct cockleNemocardium plumstedianum
MusselMylilus mitchelli
Ship wormTeredo sp.
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Gastropod molluscs
Moon snailEuspira bassae
Banded neriteNerita semilugubris
Moon snailEuspira glaucinoides
Banded pea shellTheodoxus pisiformis
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Gastropod molluscs
Marsh creeperBrotia melanoides
Freshwater snailMelanopsis
antidiluviana
Marsh creeperTympanotonus funatus
Auger shellMirula plicatula
Clam suckerOdostomia sp.
Freshwater snailBayania triticea
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Gastropod molluscs
Fissured false olivePseudoliva fissurata
WhelkEocantharus
cf. latus
WhelkPseudoneptunea subnodosa
WhelkStreptolathyrus sp.
False limpetSigapatella echinulata
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Trace Fossils
Holes in oyster shellEntobia sp.
Burrowing sponge
Predation boringsOichnus paraboloides
Attributed to Euspira spp.(below)
Mud pellet burrowOphiomorpha nodosaCallianassid shrimp