Kirkdale


This article is a draft concerning paleontology.

You can share your knowledge by improving it (how?) according to the recommendations of the corresponding projects. Kirkdale is the northernmost point where hippopotamus remains have been found

Kirkdale is a North Yorkshire valley near Kirkbymoorside.

In a cave in this valley, William Buckland discovered in 1820 many fossil bones that allowed him to publish in 1823 Reliquiæ diluvianæ, Relics of the Deluge where he stated that the remains of tropical animals found in Kirkdale came from native wildlife, not bones from animals drowned in the Flood and brought there from the tropics by the waters.

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