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We all possess a dream list of experiences hoping to be accomplished at some point in our life. My wife can now cross a trip to England off her “bucket list”. My “pre trip” enthusiasm for this British visit was far below hers. But I must say, England absolutely impressed me. The people, the history, the landscapes, and even the FOSSILS were all spectacular!!!! To be warned, this post is heavy on non-fossil pictures. Being very musically inclined, my wife had to do “Abby Road” and visit “Ziggy”. Once we got that out of the way, I could begin to enjoy what England had to offer. Our next stop was the Westminster Abbey, a royal church containing over 1000 years of history. I looked in some gravel there in hopes of finding a fossil, but to no avail. The beauty within this building is indescribable. Within its walls, or should I say floors, rests many of the world’s iconic individuals of old. We stood on top of Isaac Newton’s tomb hoping to soak up some knowledge. Unfortunately for me, it was unsuccessful. A few of the hundreds who lie in rest. Days could have been spent at the Minster, but with limited time, it was on to Buckingham Palace. The Royal Standard Flag was up, signifying the King was in house. Unfortunately, he did not answer when I knocked!! Next up was the Tower of London, to me a strange castle on the River Thames having been both a royal residence and a prison, housing the Crown Jewels of England! The Tower Bridge allows crossing of the Thames at this location. As interesting as London was, I was glad to leave the big city and enjoy England’s countryside on the way to Stonehenge. Rapeseed, unfamiliar to me, dominated the landscape and the farmer’s fields were at peak bloom. Such a vibrant landscape with the yellows against the blues of the sky and greens of the forest. We joined an early morning group that had access to the inside of Stonehenge, giving us a full hour to wander amongst historical rocks. No fossils were found. My favorite stone was the Slaughter Stone, which has hollows where water collects stained blood red. Myth says this stone was where sacrifices were carried out, hence the blood red color. A volunteer at the site, who is truly lichen expert, explained a special species of lichen grows in the depressions of the Slaughter Stone, creating the illusion of blood. Lichens are also responsible for another feature of Stonehenge. Back in the hippie days, the word LOVE was continually painted on the face of four stones for years. Eventually the paint was removed but a species of lichen. fond of paint residue seeped into the stone, keeps growing where the paint used to be. Notice my wife displaying a heart with her hands while standing next to a stone sporting lichen spelling O and a V. The next stage of our journey finally involves fossils and a bit of early afternoon tea, British style!!! Our host was none other than @Bobbie Rico and his wonderful wife, Vic. . We enjoyed their hospitality immensely. Toured their unique gardens and Bobby’s fabulous fossil collection. An exchange of gifts occurred, with me getting the better end of the deal. Thanks so much for everything!!! These were my favorite gifts.
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Marine reptile hunting at Lyme Regis, UK - April 2023
Paleoworld-101 posted a topic in Fossil Hunting Trips
It's been a while since i posted a proper trip report, so i thought i'd show you guys the spoils from my recent trip to the Lyme Regis area in early April 2023 (collecting from the 3rd to the 9th). I spent the week intensely scouring over the foreshore for any vertebrate fossils that i could, as marine reptiles are my main interest at this particular fossil site. But i found many great invertebrate fossils as well! Especially ammonites and belemnites. These fossils are all Early Jurassic in age, about 200 to 190 million years old, and come from the Blue Lias and Charmouth Mudstone formations. Most of my collecting time was on the beach between Lyme Regis and Charmouth, but i also visited Monmouth Beach west of Lyme Regis, which spectacularly showcases literally thousands of ammonites embedded within the shore platforms. This trip was my 6th to Lyme Regis overall, so i was hoping to find some vertebrate specimens that i hadn't yet found on previous trips. And things proved very successful! Despite the large amount of people on the beach over the Easter break. Firstly, some shots of the beautiful coastline. It really is an amazing place to collect. This is the beach immediately east of Lyme Regis, looking out at Church Cliffs, the Spittles, and Black Ven. This is midway between Lyme Regis and Charmouth, looking east towards Charmouth. A closer view looking towards Charmouth. This is the famous "ammonite pavement" at Monmouth Beach, west of Lyme Regis, where thousands of ammonites can be observed in the shore platform. This Mary Anning statue has recently been erected near the beach access point east of Lyme Regis (within the last year i believe). People were leaving both flowers and fossils here which is lovely. Now to the fossil finds! Including some "as found" pics of fossils lying on the beach, before i picked them up. Starting with a nice section of marine reptile rib. I suspect this is plesiosaur rather than ichthyosaur. The end of some kind of marine reptile limb or phalange. Possibly the end of a plesiosaur phalanx. This is the bottom half of an ichthyosaur humerus. I've drawn the approximate shape of the part that is missing. A small piece of ichthyosaur rib. This is a new one for me. A fragment of hybodontid shark dorsal spine. Although it is just a piece, these are relatively rare on this coast. Perhaps the quintessential marine reptile bone from this coastline, an ichthyosaur vertebra! As found on the beach and then in my hand. Finding these never gets old. This is the top of an ichthyosaur femur. The natural cross section of the bone shaft preserves amazing detail of its growth rings! A small fragment of ichthyosaur jaw, with several rounded cross sections of worn teeth. Something else i had yet to find from this area: marine reptile coprolites! One is quite beach worn, while the other is rather 'fresh'. No pun intended. As-found pictures of marine reptile bone chunks sitting on the beach. Here's a final summary of all the vertebrate finds from the trip. For a weeks worth of searching i'm very happy with this lot! And of course, the invertebrates! I particularly loved some of the larger ammonites, although carrying them off the beach would require a team of people! And these definitely wouldn't fit in my suitcase returning to Australia... A lovely belemnite. This one is a nautilus! Finally, something i wasn't expecting to find. This is a small crustacean from the Upper Greensand (Cretaceous rather than Jurassic). Overall it was a fantastic trip! And i'm looking forward to returning whenever i can. Thanks for checking out this report
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Mississippian mystery ?shell, UK. SOLVED: Isogramma, an unusual brachiopod
TqB posted a topic in Fossil ID
I have seven specimens of these, all with the same appearance and strange internal structure. They have perplexed me for years though I'm familiar with most fossils from the area. (I originally had three and have recently collected four more which enables them to be characterised more reliably. Altogether, five individuals are fairly complete). One small exposure of marine shale, Mississippian, Brigantian Stage, northern England, Co. Durham. The main features are: 1) See photos 3 & 4 -The shell material is strange, being irregularly honeycombed, resulting in a granular apperarance on the surface. I haven't seen any other shells at all like this from the same beds - brachiopods and bivalves being common. 2)They're roughly semicircular and shell-like. They very possibly have been paired down the straight edge. (Two of my seven specimens each consist of two disarticulated individuals, one on top of the other.) Bilaterally symmetrical, with a central sulcus or ridge. 3)The straight edge is thin and bent over. Where preserved it terminates with distinctive sharply curved ridged ornament. 4)They're all about the same size, 35-45mm across, and seem to be about 1mm thick. Although superficially brachiopod like, there's no sign of a hinge or umbo, and the texture isn't like any brachiopod I know. The fine structure closely resembles Jurassic ammonite aptychi of Laevaptychus type so aptychus is one possibility I've been considering though the shape doesn't match any I've found. Also, they're really quite common in the small source exposure whilst cephalopods are scarce (just one small orthocone to date). And Palaeozoic aptychi are generally rare and would be surprising. I have a few other ideas but will see what people can come up with. I hope it's obvious to someone! Here are four specimens, two of them being the possibly associated pairs. Thank you for looking! Specimen 1, paired: Specimen 1, top member removed (it broke off when drying!): Specimen two, worn fragment showing honeycombed internal structure. (All the specimens show this.) Specimen 2, closeup: Specimen 1, edge detail: Specimen 3, paired, partial at bottom overlaying complete one. Note close similarity of edge with previous photo (specimen 1) Specimen 4, with better preserved circular edge: EDIT: All seven specimens so far collected, in the same orientation to show their morphological consistency.
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The lady from our local rockhound club that gave me the Arthrophycus piece recently... has given me the rest of her fossils. She is getting on in years and has decided to start passing stuff on, and anyway she is more of a lapidary person I think. This is partly a showoff post and partly a request for more information for the ones that I am lacking detailed info on. She was not able to give me the full info on every piece. I was able to fill in some gaps myself but not all. I don't know if I should post the pertinent ones in the ID section. but if anyone can fill in where details are lacking I'd appreciate it. Most of them come from Canada and the US, but also England, and one from Australia, and they span from Ordovician to Recent. I'll post closer pics of individual pieces below, but here are some overall shots - the collection fits into 3 flats: Paleozoic and Cenozoic:
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Lyme Regis crustacean fossil- Which stratum would this originate from?
Paleoworld-101 posted a topic in Questions & Answers
This fossil crustacean was collected in England on the foreshore between Lyme Regis and Charmouth, amongst the algae-covered large boulders that are exposed at low tide. It looks to be in some kind of phosphatic nodule. The cream-colour of the matrix is quite unlike the dark Jurassic rocks that make this region famous. I was thinking it is unlikely to be from the Jurassic layers, and probably originates from the overlying Cretaceous sequences higher up in the cliffs? Both Gault Clay and Upper Greensand (Albian in age) unconformably sit above the Jurassic beds. Does anyone know which of these deposits are known to produce crustacean specimens with this type of preservation and lithology in the Lyme Regis area? Thanks for any input!
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Whilst on a dog walk in Bedfordshire, this exposed fossil was found and I wondered if I could get some help identifying. Looking at the structure being a honeycomb style my first reaction was bone of some kind but any help would be hugely appreciated. Some smaller pieces have hair like lines across the fossil.
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Hi, This is my first post and thought I would start with this one, which is definitely one of the most unusual I have found to-date. It was found in North Hertfordshire, England. Thank you!
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hi all!! i've just come back from poking through hornsea beach (england uk) and i have a small bag of finds. i'm quite new to identifying fossils so any help would be so very much appreciated!! thank you in advance for your time and expertise. hornsea beach's cliffs are made up of boulder clay and are said to be good for erratics. 1. ammonite? 2. interesting imprint at the bottom, maybe crinoid impressions?? 3. not sure 4. not sure 5. some kind of plant? 6. unusual imprint at the top there 7. curious as to whether this one is just a quartz deposit or something else? there are two on the front and one long one on the back. 8. a brachiopod? this one is a little iridescent when turned in the light, the picture doesn't capture this very well! thank you again
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So, I thought I would start a similar thread to the "Fossil from Each of the 50 States" thread. But one for the UK. Show a fossil from each county in the UK - England,(48), Wales (22), Scotland (33) & Ireland. And for Ireland, we can include Northern (6) and Southern (26).
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Found this in abbey wood with a bunch of fossil shark teeth and shells. Wondering if it was a tooth connected to a bit of bone? thank you for reading
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hi i found this today in northumberland in carboniferous rock. could this be a trilobite?
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Hello, I think this is a fossil as it seems heavy and old looking. I found it in Chiswick England by the River Thames. Google lens search of the bone brought me to this site and comes up with a being a deer Bone from Pleistocene Period. Can anyone tell by the pics if this is a fossil, what bone it is, and what period it is from if it is in fact a fossil. Am I correct or even close? Thank you in advance for your help.
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Apologies for the usual hiatus from here. I’m back (just like arni always says). The past 6 months have been an absolute rollercoaster of collecting and prepping. I thought I’d ease you all into one of my best finds this year. Here in Yorkshire, we have an incredible layer of fossils from what’s known as the jet rock (Whitby jet too). In this layer, we get what are known as cannonball nodules. Usually always heavily coated in a pyrite skin, and 1 in around 15 has a fossil inside. Almost always, Eleganticeras Elegantulum. This is one I found around 6 months ago. The Eleganticeras keel and outer whorl, clearly sticking out. Usually, I prefer to prepare myself, but lacking the equipment for polishing, I sent it off to my friend, and the best prepper in the uk. A month later, I get this stunning specimen back. An absolute master of his craft, and prep I can only aspire to achieve one day.
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Wanting to confirm if this piece found in the Jurassic Coast is a fossil.
Dolan posted a topic in Fossil ID
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Here is my Pliosaurus macromerus cut bone. Species: Pliosaurus macromerus Synonyms: Strétosaurus , Pliosaurus rossicus Fossil age: 180 million years (Lower Jurassic) Location: Port Mulgrave, North Whitby, England Formation: Upper Lias Fossil size: 3,7'' x 1,9'' If you think there are errors in my information please let me know.
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The center looks porous in texture, with a harder much darker outside edge.
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Liopleurodon Ferox Tooth?
Alston Gee posted a topic in Is It Real? How to Recognize Fossil Fabrications
I know this pliosaur tooth has been discussed early in another post, but here are more pictures with true colour (I guess) provided by the seller. The true locality of this tooth remains unknown although the seller claimed it was from Oxford Clay Formation, England. Does this tooth belong to Liopleurodon Ferox or Cretaceous pliosaur?
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It's common knowledge that Smilodon has been mistakenly called the "saber-toothed tiger", yet it and other machairodontines were not closely related to the tiger or other members of the felid subfamily Pantherinae. However, Smilodon was the not the first saber-toothed cat to be bestowed the epithet "saber-toothed tiger". In a poem about Pleistocene mammals found in England, British poet Thomas Miller refers to the European machairodontine Homotherium latidens as a "saber-toothed tiger", in which case people in Europe and America had yet to literally use the term "saber-tooth tiger" for the Smilodon. Link: https://incertaesedisblog.wordpress.com/2022/06/28/the-origin-of-sabre-toothed-tiger/
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A lovely and today rare ammonit from northeastern england, found near Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire. Unpolished this ammonites (found in an iron limestone) are a little bit ugly..., but after polishing they are fantastic! This has around 20 cm -
The Devonian period is known as "The Age of Fish", but could also be known as "The Age of Brachiopods." In the Early / Lower Devonian, brachiopods reached the height of their diversity towards its end in the Emsian. We see the ancestral groups occurring, lingulids, craniids, orthids, protorthids, pentamerids, rhynchonellids and strophomenids, as well as the later successful groups we have seen before such as atrypids, athyrids and orthotetids, plus the rise of spiriferids, spiriferinids and productids and the beginning of the terebratulids. By the end of the Devonian , several of these groups are extinct or severely reduced in importance and brachiopods never quite recover. Also, the Devonian is the last time we see trilobites with such variation, large sizes and numbers and orthocerids too are much more uncommon after the rise of the goniatites. The massive tabulate coral reefs also disappear after the Devonian. Fascinating period and I hope to share some of its wonders with you. Equally, a lot of this is rather new to me, so I would be very grateful for any assistance, corrections or further information on my specimens. Thank you. The Early Devonian epoch is split into three stages, so let's start with the first of those, the Lochkovian, that began about 419 mya and finished roughly 411 mya. I have been sent a nice selection of brachiopods from the Kalkberg Formation, Helderberg Group by the Mighty @Misha, mostly. But the kind gentleperson also sent me this fascinating little bryozoan hash : It is dominated by fenestellids, which is usually the case in the Devonian, but other orders sill occur. These ones, I think, are Fenestella, but there are so many species in the formation that I wont take a guess as to species : Not sure what this one is ;
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Partial 'Megaloceros giganteus' Jaw: I'd Love to Learn More about It...
JamieC7696 posted a topic in Fossil ID
This is a partial 'Megaloceros giganteus' jaw I recently bought, which I'd love to learn more about - but especially the following: 1. Is it actually from Megaloceros, or - indeed - another mammal? 2. Can we tell how mature the animal was when it died? 3. Is the jaw a composite at all? 4. How are such fossils prepared for sale after being found: i.e., I'm especially curious to learn about whether paint and/or glue are applied - and, if so, what would it have looked like before such preparation, upon its discovery?
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Very large & irregular flint nodule, sea sponge or burrow system?
Thames Adventurer posted a topic in Fossil ID
Hi! I found this very large and irregularly shaped flint nodule on the Thames foreshore, London. To me, it kind of looks like the branching arms of a sea sponge, but I have heard that flint nodules also sometimes filled the shape of animal burrows and other things. It has a number of holes/handles in it. What do you think it is?
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New longirostrine pliosaur described from the Oxford Clay
pachy-pleuro-whatnot-odon posted a topic in Fossil News
Hi all, Just came across the exciting news that a new pliosaur genus and species has been described from the Callovian stage of the Oxford Clay near Yarnton in Oxfordshire. Dubbed Eardasaurus powelli (Powel's Yarnton lizard), it's a longirostrine thalassophonean pliosaur that is slightly more derived than Peloneustes philarchus (with which it shares numerous anatomical features) and forms a sister taxon to "Pliosaurus", Simolestes, Liopleurodon, Pliosaurus and brachaucheninae. A feature of particular interest in the dentition of this new species is the presence of connecting carina-like apicobasal ridges on some of its teeth. The article describing Eardasaurus powelli can be found here. -
I'm opening this new thread as in my "Fossil collection Part 1" came out from one of the pictures that I might have found and old broken clay pipe (found in a rock pool during a low tide) Is there anyone that can help me understand if this is effectively a pipe and how old this object could be? Thank you! Attached images:
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Hi everyone, I'm new to this forum >> My welcome This is my "fossils collection", some may be just stones some definitely fossils. I collected these during a low tide in the rock pools on Margate sands beach (Kent, England). I picked these up with my hands, no hammering or digging. Over time they presented a white patina on them, maybe calcium? I didn't clean them as it might help to recognize them (maybe a chemical reaction? not an expert so I preferred not to alter them) This is just part 1 of my collection, I will upload more in days to come. The photos are front and back of the fossils. I'd like to know more about what they are; teeth, Belemnites and more? I'll upload here the compressed pictures, for you to identify them, if possible. I'd like to learn how to clean them but I think it requires lots of experience and expensive materials... If you need any pic brighter and crispier, just let me know and I can upload it separately, I'm a Photoshop wizard Omono 1. Tooth? Front 2. Tooth? Back 3. Big belemnite? Looks like a little shark head - FRONT 4. Big belemnite? Looks like a little shark head - BACK 5. 6. 8. 9. 10. 11. Bone? 11. 12. Tooth? n.2 13. Tooth n.2 Detail 14. Tooth n.2 BACK 15. 16. 17. 18. Big belemnite? Looks like a little shark head - DETAIL
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