Vault

Palaeo vault

Deep-time life. Fossil specimens, trace fossils and reconstructions of extinct organisms.

6 published records. Locations are shown only as precisely as it is safe to show them.

Catalogue

6 records

PalaeoT1 Recorded

Eleven fossil lycopsid tree stumps preserved in place in a Carboniferous forest floor.

325 to 320 MaFossil Grove, Victoria Park, Glasgow, Scotland

PalaeoT5 Speculative

A composed soundscape imagining the Fossil Grove forest: wind in giant club-mosses, insects, water. Clearly speculative.

325 to 320 MaFossil Grove, Victoria Park, Glasgow, Scotland

PalaeoT1 RecordedGeneralised to about 10 km

A Lower Jurassic marine reptile skeleton from the Blue Lias of the Dorset coast.

199 to 190 MaJurassic Coast near Lyme Regis, Dorset, England

PalaeoT1 RecordedGeneralised to about 50 km

A Middle Jurassic trackway of sauropod and theropod footprints on a tidal platform.

170 to 165 MaTrotternish peninsula, Isle of Skye, Scotland

PalaeoT1 RecordedRestricted

The type specimen of the crested hadrosaur, a near-complete skeleton from the Dinosaur Park Formation of Alberta.

76.5 to 74 MaDinosaur Park Formation, southern Alberta, Canada

PalaeoT4 ReconstructedRestricted

A modelled low-frequency call derived from the crest's internal airways. A reconstruction, not a recording.

76.5 to 74 MaDinosaur Park Formation, southern Alberta, Canada

Crest resonance modelling (T4): How a reconstructed hadrosaur call is derived from the internal airways of a fossil crest.
Soundscape composition (T5): How speculative soundscapes are composed from modern analogues, and why they are labelled T5.

Time and location rules for all vaults are on the Methods and Ethics pages.