Fossilised bivalve preserved as an internal and an external mould. The shell itself has dissolved away. Uplift, weathering and erosion: why we can find fossils How do we find fossils when they've been ...

Good places to find trilobite fossils: Torquay in Devon, Marloes Sands in Wales and Coniston in Cumbria. Two very famous sites are Wren’s Nest in Dudley and Girvan in Scotland. A piece of rock ...

Stewart Edie, curator of fossil bivalves at the Smithsonian’s ... of Birmingham and colleagues drastically expanded the list of bivalve species, such as clams, oysters, mussels, scallops and ...