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Meadfoot Beach Torquay Devon TRIANGLE POINT Torbay Harbour

Meadfoot is an area of Torquay, Devon. Meadfoot beach is a mixture of rock, stone and sandy areas. At the rocky eastern end there is a cliff and a car park, which gives access to a boat launching ramp. The western end is more sandy and has facilities such as a cafe and beach huts. Meadfoot Beach & Triangle Point: An Epic Adventure 400 million years in the making. If you had been diving here in the warm tropical waters of the mid Devonian seas, 395 million years ago, the sea life would have looked very strange indeed You wouldn't see any easily recognisable fish swimming around, just some small eel-like creatures and others resembling squids. And on the sea bed, although the brightly coloured corals and sea shells might at first seem familiar, there are also meadows of long-stemmed, skeletal creatures, swaying in the currents and, scurrying across the sea floor, are wood-louse like animals some are very spiny, others launching themselves to swim away from you. Reaching for your waterproof 'Spotters Guide to Devonian Marine Life,' you can identify. 1.Orthocone nautiloid - a squid-like animal in a straight shell; 2. Ammonoid - similar to 1 but with a coiled shell; 3. Eel-like conodonts - small primitive relatives of fish; 4. Swimming trilobites; 5. Crawling trilobites, some spiny; 6. Clumps of brachiopods (they look like clams but are not related); 7. Grazing snails; 8. Stalked crinoids - groups of starfish-related, stemmed animals; 9. Fan-like bryozoan colonies (often called 'sea-fans ); 10. Branching 'tabulate' coral colonies; 11. Dome shaped 'tabulate' coral colonies; 12. Solitary, horn-shaped 'rugose' corals; 1 3. Branching 'rugose' coral colonies, and 14. Dome-shaped stromatoporoid sponge colonies MEADFOOT GROUP: The shore and cliffs to the middle and east of Meadfoot Beach expose sandstones and slates which were once sands and muds in a shallow tropical sea some 405 million years ago, during the early part of the Devonian time period. These are some of the oldest rocks in Torbay, and throughout south Devon and Corrwall and are known as the Meadfoot Group', named after this bay! TRIANGLE POINT - The steep sloping surface on the right-hand side of the rocky bluff in front of you was once part of a tropical reef but 395 million years ago during the mid-Devonian time period, it was horizontal (later tectonic movements tilted it) The surface shows lots of low, slightly paler-grey domes which are the colonies of stromatoporoid sponges which made up the fabric of Devonian reefs still sitting here in exactly the same position as they were in in lile life so so long ago...