Friends may wish to know that the Palaeontolgy Society has made
freely avaialble back issues of its Journal - a number of which
would be of interest to Speeton members. Vist:

http://www.palass.org/

and follow the link to the download portal. Keyword searches
using "speeton" in the title field will bring up immediately
relevant papers. Try "rawson" and "doyle" for author field searches.

There is also much of general interest here including original
papers by Whittington, Conway-Morris, Briggs and Budd and many
others.

Having access to these papers has enabled me to confirm the identity
of the rather nice belemnite I collected at Speeton. It is almost
certainly Acroteuthis conoides (Swinnerton) - see

"The belemnite Acroteuthis in the Hibolites beds (Hauterivian–
Barremian) of north-west Europe" VOLUME 30· PART 3 AUGUST 1987 J.
Mutterlose, G. Pinckney and P. F. Rawson.

I have previously posted pictures of it in this forum.

All credit to Jack Doyle who identified it as such without actually
having seen it. So its not Oxyteuthis or Aulacoteuthis at all. Very
special nevertheless.

Also, the fossil wood inclusions I previously posted about are
almost certainly boring bivalve molluscs:

(see my pictures in comparison to the paper by J. S. Crampton "A new
species of Late Cretaceous wood-boring bivalve from New
Zealand "VOLUME 33· PART 4 · NOVEMBER 1990

All credit to Mike Horne who suggested that this is what they where.

Hope this is of some interest

Regards