(Achanarras Quarry) - 2003
You need to look at the side of the slabs for very fine laminated yellow and blue alternating bands, these are very close together and no more than 2mm thick between layers. Use the Fossil Pics page as a colour guide. Some bluish slabs contain a thick quartz layer between the sides of the slabs rather than layers, these contain fish fragments but no whole fish. The slabs are easy to split, it is best to experiment splitting a wide range and then using any finds as a template guide for the correct colour. Often if you split a slab to find a fish, other fish will also be in the same slab, plus the fish splits on two sides, you you also get at least two specimens for one split. There are several different species of which some are shown on a board at the site.
