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65 Million Year Old Fossil

History of Downley Posted on November 20, 2019 by BrianMay 17, 2020

This fossilised marine mollusc was found on Downley Common, on the bridleway between Moor Lane and Hughenden Manor.  It was subsequently identified by the Department of Palaeontology at the British Museum (Natural History) as an Inoceramus lamarcki, that lived in the Cretaceous period approximately 65-70,000,000 years ago, when the area around Downley was a shallow sea.

It could be Downley’s oldest known inhabitant – unless you know of an older one.

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