(Collecting at Shepherds Chine) - 2005
Along the coast at Shepherd's Chine, a wide range of fossils can be found. At Atherfield Point, during scouring and extreme low tide conditions, Lobsters can be found on the foreshore. Most of these can be found by simply using a knife or pick and lifting them out of the foreshore.
Between Shepherds Chine and Whale Chine, there is a bone bearing bed which is full of teeth and other small remains. This is a very hard bed but is thin and can easily be split. During scouring conditions this bed forms a platform along the beach.
At Whale Chine, concretions contain Ammonites , most common is Chelonioceras), bivalves and plant remains. Towards the East of the Chine, Ammonites of Cheloniceras, Dufrenoyia and several different bivalves can be found here, it is most fossiliferious.
East of Shepherd's Chine. The Atherfield Clay here is the most interesting of Whale Chine and Shepard's Chine. At the base of the Atherfield Clay, many bivalves, gastropods, brachiopods, worm tubes and corals. Occasionally Ammonites can be found.
( Lepidotes jaw near Whale Chine) - 2003 [Matheau Raven]
