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I’ve been super excited to finally find my own marine reptile fossil and today i’ve done just that and i’m chuffed! Found this near Whitby in Yorkshire. Low tide was at about 6pm so I was waiting for the water to go out so I could get round. Lucky I was the first person. The vert is very waterworn and damaged, but Im not bothered. I’ve had my eye out for awhile and am very happy to find one, hopefully the first of many..
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Hey, I’ve finally spent some time on the Jurassic Coast the last few days around Portland, Lulworth Cove and Lyme Regis / Charmouth beach and thought I would share what I’ve found. Not loads but my own first fossil which I’m pretty proud of even if it’s tiny lol! It’s part of a infant ichthyosaur neck vertebrae if I’m correct. Also some photos of Ammonite imprints on some big rocks and a rock I found and broke open with an ammonite imprint and possible tooth imbedded in it? Also random photos of not sure what lol let me know please what you think.
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This piece was found by me two years ago in the Kromer Quarry near Holzmaden and was prepped by Roger Furze ( @Ludwigia ). On the piece you can see a disarticulated Ichthyosaur skull with some ribs and vertebrae. You can see one eyehole very good, although the eye itself isn't preserved. Isolated bones are not that rare in Holzmaden but such pieces are very rare! It could be a skull of a juvenile.
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This fossil was found by me two years ago in the visitor quarry Kromer near Holzmaden and was prepped by Roger Furze ( @Ludwigia ). Thanks again On the piece you can see a disarticulated Ichthyosaur skull with some ribs and vertebrae. You can see one eyehole very good, although the eye itself isnt preserved. Isolated bones are not that rare in Holzmaden but such pieces are very rare ! At the maximum the piece is about 24 cm long. Unprepped: Prepped: The eyehole is very good visible: (Probably my favourite part ) The other eyehole: Some more bones: A vertebra: This one could be from a juvenile which is very rare! -
This is a fossil from Guizhou. One could see some bones belonging to ichthyosaur but there is another more puzzling thing there, it looks like a stomach, even with seemingly partially digested ammonites (not the intact one nearby). Any idea if it is really a stomach fossil?
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Its Toothy Tuesday Time Tooth of the pliosaurid Liopleurodon from the Middle Jurassic (Callovian) Oxford Clay of the Peterborough area in England, courtesy of Sven Sachs WOW now thats big Skull of the giant ichthyosaur Temnodontosaurus. Lower Jurassic of Bielefeld. Collection of the Natural History Museum Bielefeld, Germany. Also by S. Sachs More from Sven ..Skull of the amiid fish Calamopleurus from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil. On display at the Geomatikum, University of Hamburg (Germany) Give it a few seconds for 3D image to activate From the Witmer Lab the a 3D image of the Dentary of the Nanotyrannus "Jane" https://t.co/uuM7tmCRHZ Also from the Witmer Lab dentary of Majungasaurus from Madagascar https://t.co/ElIGOIGUdI Tyrannosaur tooth climbing out of its root bound tomb, courtesy of Eric Lund Tyrannosaurus premaxillary (above) and dentary (below) tooth from the same individual. Courtesy of David Honex Walruses once lived along the coast of New Jersey! Here is the palate (roof of the mouth) of a large walrus, Odobenus rosmarus, that was dredged up off of Long Branch, NJ. You can see the sockets where the tusks once were and 3 small teeth on each side. Courtesy of NJ State Museum Tooth of a large (~4 m) dromaeosaurid from North Carolina, courtesy of Chase Brownstein. Setting up one of Hesperornis dentaries for molding. Courtesy of Carrie Herbel Also from Carrie, a skull of the Cretaceous toothed bird Hesperornis. In the lab scanning a tyrannosaurid maxilla from the Texas Mem Museum Juvenile T rex teeth from Baby Bob, hmmm definitely not Nanotyrannus Fossils are great, but it’s kind of a bummer there aren’t walking whales like Pakicetus, courtesy of Brian Switek Daspletosaurus dentary in the collections NHM London from the Late Cretaceous of Alberta, collected by WE Cutler, courtesy of NHMdinoLab Also from the dinolab the Middle Jurassic theropod Duriavenator One more For all you T. rex groupies out there here’s some of the dentary teeth from the first skeleton of this species ever found now at NHM London , collected by Barnum Brown in 1900, from Wyoming, USA A Daspletosaurus from tge Two Medicine Fm of Montana, courtesy of Jack Horner
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Please could someone advise me on the permission required to remove a fossil. At low tide on the North Yorkshire coast near Port Mulgrave I discovered 5 visible ribs and some verts exposed under seaweed. The fossil appears to be limited to this with no paddles or jaw etc but it is still my best find. The area to be removed is approximately 60cm by 50cm. It is located about 10 meters off shore and will be exposed again next week. I removed a rib in three parts and would be able to remove the whole plate with tools. Can anyone tell me whether I need permission to do this and if it would be ok to use a cordless power tool in the process. Best regards Steve
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Hello all I'm currently on a trip in France, near Chaumont. The geological maps say this area is middle to upper Jurassic, but other sources say it's Rhaetian (Upper Triassic). I found this tooth in marine desposits, clearly because 99% of all finds I do here are molusks, bivalves etc. They range from less than one cm to over 15 cm. The tooth is about 2 cm. What do you all think? As far as I know no Ichthyosaurus fossils have been found here. Thanks
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A 15 cm long plate with some Ichthyosaur ribs from a construction site near Balingen (Germany). I bought it at a fair. Isnt it wonderfully prepped? Another picture:-
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A 15 cm long plate with Ichthyosaur vertebrae and ribs from Holzmaden (Lower Jurassic). I bought this one at a fair. (I couldnt resist ) Some more pictures:- 5 comments
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Fake or Fossil? Ichthyosaur to ‘iffyosaur’ ( United Kingdom )
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
Fake or Fossil? Ichthyosaur to ‘iffyosaur’ Part #1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okjpbpD_My0 Fake or Fossil? UV exposes plaster Part #2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCss3BWohPI Dean R. Lomax - Life as a palaeontologis https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnuR8gNE-GXYyiA8eE-5p2w A published paper about composites is: Massare, J.A. and Lomax, D.R., 2016. Composite skeletons of Ichthyosaurus in historic collections. Paludicola, 10, pp. 207-250. PDF file at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303932537_Composite_skeletons_of_Ichthyosaurus_in_historic_collections https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Judy_Massare http://www.academia.edu/26087070/Composite_skeletons_of_Ichthyosaurus_in_historic_collections http://brockport.academia.edu/JudyMassare “…we describe nearly complete skeletons of the Lower Jurassic genus Ichthyosaurus that are probably composites or that, at least, require further examination to assess their authenticity.” Yours, Paul H. -
BBC Documentary About Ichthyosaur Fossil Found at Lyme Regis
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
Sir David Attenborough helps discover brand new species of ichthyosaur in Lyme Regis, Dorset Echo, Jennifer Mulcahey, January 3, 2018 http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/NEWS/15805526.Sir_David_Attenborough_helps_discover_new_species____and_you_might_recognise_the_location/ P.S., I am not responsible for the article's title. Yours, Paul H.- 4 replies
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I think one is a rib, but i'm not sure about the other bits, cheers.
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David Attenborough and the Sea Dragon documentary BBC I ON IPLAYER
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Hi all, I recently found this massive bowling ball sized rock at Saltwick Bay near Whitby on the Yorkshire coast (Northern England). It is lower to middle Jurassic, i think about 180-170 million years old (possibly the Whitby Mudstone Formation). As you can see it it's full of various bones, which occur on almost all sides of the rock so they are probably running right through it. Prep for this one is going to be a nightmare i can tell and i don't have the right tools, but for now i really just want to try and figure out what i've got. I think it's fair to assume the bones are associated. The options for this bit of coast are fish (Gyrosteus), ichthyosaur, marine crocodile, plesiosaur or dinosaur. I was hoping based on the cross sectional shapes of some of the bones, and the texture of the bone itself, someone would be able to narrow down what it might be. Fish or reptile would be the first thing to determine. My obvious first assumption was marine reptile, but some of the fish on the Yorkshire coast like Gyrosteus are also huge (5m long) and i'm not very familiar with their bone structure. In this picture, i thought the rectangular bone towards the bottom might be a vertebra in cross-section. If so, from what? Could it be the edge of an ichthyosaur vertebra before it dips down in the centre? This bone is the biggest in the block, about 8 cm long and 3 cm thick. Continued in the next post!
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Hi there. I recently purchased a big box full of shale, containing a number of disarticulated ichthyosaur bones from South Wales. Mostly ribs, but there's also a humerus and one or two other unidentified bones too. It's not an amazing piece, but I'd consider it good practice. I've been trying to work out how to prep it. It's in many pieces, and putting them together is a bit of a task in itself! As you can see from this terrible photo, I've made some progress. I've numbered the joins so that their positions can be found easily, and drawn in marker pen on the surface of the shale where the bones appear to run beneath. I'd appreciate any advice from anyone that's done this sort of thing before. This is how I intend on proceeding: 1. Complete the jigsaw - and hope it all fits together! 2. Prep each piece to expose the bones 3. Set the pieces onto some kind of backing - not sure what? 4. Tidy up the prep, and use epoxy clay to fill the cracks. If anyone has any suggestions, I'd be very grateful. I've never dealt with any icthyosaur material before.
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Can anyone help me id this vert. It came with a batch of Ichthyosaur bones I bought from Dorset, but it not like Ichthyosaur verts I usually get.
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Here is my small ichthyosaur collection. I keep all my fossils in 19th century draws as it fits with our living room which is a Victorian cabinet of curiosities or Wunderkammer. Paddle basioccipital
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Another small ( 1cm long) and bit damaged Ichthyosaur tooth from the quarry Kromer near Holzmaden (lower Jurassic) But the root is nice and well preserved ! Some more images: -
Yesterday I was again in the quarry Kromer near Holzmaden (Lower Jurassic) and I found a really nice tooth ! The tooth is about 2 cm long and 1 cm wide ! I think its one of the biggest tooth I have ever found ! Its a Temnodontosaurus tooth, which is a large Ichthyosaur. In the "Schlacke" (a specific layer) you can sometimes find smaller teeth but such big teeth in a good condition are very rare. I am really happy about this one Especially because there wasnt much material there, so it was a lucky find ! The prep took about 4 hours. - The quarry, where I find this teeth will close during winter so the tooth is also a great completion of this year !
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I found this very small thing on my fossil of two ichthyosaur rib bones. It's very shiny. It is From Jurassic sediment (200 million years old) at Lavernock, South Wales, U.K. 5p coin for scale.
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I have a question if Ichthyosaur is considered a reptile how come it gave birth to its young live? What separates it from mammals?
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Wanted: a history of british fossil reptiles by Owen Richard
JohnBrewer posted a topic in Questions & Answers
Title says it all really. Can anybody help? @abyssunder @doushantuo @Fruitbat Thanks!
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