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Essex 6

Burnham-on-Crouch (Butts Cliff) Harwich Maylandsea Stansgate Steeple Bay Walton-on-the-Naze

Kent 10

Allhallows-on-Sea Elmley Hill Hampton Pier Herne Bay (Beltinge / Bishopstone) Isle of Sheppey (Warden - Minster) Lower Upnor (Medway Foreshore) Reculver Seasalter Swale Creekside Site Tankerton

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Abbey Wood

Surrey 2

Guildford Park Brickworks Guildford–Godalming Bypass (Onslow Cuttings)

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Angel sharks Arctocyonids Argentines Ark Shells Auger Snails Beetles Bivalves Bonefish Bowfin relatives Brittle Stars Bryozoans Bullhead sharks Catsharks Cerith Snails Chimaeroids Clams Cockles Cookie Cutter shark Corals Cow sharks Crabs Crinoids Crocodilians Cusk-eel relatives Dogfish sharks Drumfish relatives Early Hoofed Mammal Echinoids Fish Freshwater Snails Freshwater turtles Frigatebird-like seabirds Fruits & Seeds Gadiform relatives Gamebirds Gars Gastropods Goblin shark Horse relatives Hound shark Ibis relatives Leatherback turtles Lingulids Lithornithids Lobsters Mackerel relatives Mackerel sharks Marine Snails Milkfish Moon Snails Mousebirds Nautiloids Nerites Nightbird relatives Ostracods (seed shrimps) Other crustaceans Oysters Pantodonts Parrot like birds Perching bird relatives Phyllodont fishes Predatory mammals Primate relatives Pseudotoothed birds Rail relatives Raptors Requiem sharks Sand tiger sharks Sea Butterflies Sea snakes Sea turtles Shipworms Side-necked turtles Small Early Mammal Starfish Stingrays Stomatopods Swift relatives Terebratulids Thresher sharks Tropicbird relatives True Bugs Tube Worms Tusk Shells Waterfowl Weevils Whale shark Whelks Wood & Stems

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37 fossil records with reference photographs 496 species · 18 unresolved identifications recorded in total