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Building Name or Address

UCL Slade School of Art

Location of Geological Feature

Steps and paving in front of entrance. Sections through whorls of the ammonite Titanites giganteus are preserved in the paving, along with other shell fossils.

Description of geological feature

Portland Stone: Whitbed

Fossils

Cast of a Titanites ammonite, oyster & pecten shells

Rock Type

Limestone

Geological Age

Upper Jurassic

Quarry Location

Isle of Portland, Dorset, UK.

Category

Fossil

Nearest station

Euston Square

Address

Gower Street WC1E 6BT