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Collections & Collectors: 51. The fossil collection of C.B. Salter from Cliff Quarry, Compton Martin, Mendip Hills

1987; Volume: 4; Issue: 8 Linguagem: Inglês

10.55468/gc814

0144-5294

Murray Mitchell,

Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils

Cliff Salter made a notable contribution to geology by amassing a very large collection of fossils from the Carboniferous Limestone at Cliff Quarry (NCR ST541568), Compton Martin, in the Mendip Hills, Somerset. The fossils from this quarry have been known for a long time (e.g. Sibly 1906, p.351), but Cliff Salter's meticulous work resulted in one of the largest collections of Carboniferous Limestone fossils ever made from a single locality.