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Hi all! New to the site, new to fossil hunting, and new to the UK! I was taking a walk earlier today at Shingle Street, not looking for fossils. I happened to look down and found this gem! Can anyone help me identify it and tell me how old it is? Thanks!

Hello Trying find out more information on this item, it was loosely ID as fossilized coral, , part of an old collection of shells flint and fossils from surrey UK

Been finding plenty of stigmaria etc at a landslide at my local river in the UK but now I've found this and it looks a bit like worms to me but I'm new to this so any help would be appreciated.

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

Hi guys, any thoughts on this one? Maybe a pseudocadoceras? I’m fairly sure it is from Ashton Keynes, making it callovian kellaways formation @Ludwigia thanks!

New to all this but found 3 of these all within a few meters of each other on a building site I’m working at. This is the best out of the 3 and is about the size of a fist, no idea what it is so any insight would be greatly appreciated

Found on U.K. beach. Probably just a rock, but it is spongy looking and sticks to the tongue. Could it be bone?

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!

Excellent new paper on theropod teeth, the Middle Jurassic area sampled suggests the presence of at least three distinct dromaeosaur morphotypes, plus a therizinosaur and troodontid. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/spp2.1487

Help needed to identify the photos attached. Found in the UK at Hinckley point. Is this man made? thanks, Ade

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

Pterosaur jaw specimens are examined from the Cambridge Greensand/Chalk member and are remarkably similar and distinctive from unnamed pterosaur jaws from the Kem Kem Group https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016787823000226

Hi I spend a bit of time on dog walks looking for palaeolithic flints with varying degrees of success. However the other day I found the thing attached and I can't tell what it is. I'm pretty sure it's a fossil... perhaps a plant or branch or maybe a worm cast. As you can tell I'm no expert! Found in Steyning, West Sussex UK.... chalk and flint country!

Hi everyone, I purchased this Lyme Regis specimen a few weeks ago and have been working on it with a pin vice and Dremel (with the proper fossil/rock appropriate tips) and am fairly happy with my progress. I am quite new to prepping and this is the first multi block I have attempted. The rock is not terribly hard for the most part but can be a bit sticky. Yesterday, whilst trying to uncover an ammonite in the corner of the rock, I uncovered another ammonite, and then another, and then a bivalve. The three ammonites are all pretty much on top of each other and I don't know how to go about prepping them. Part of the top one broke off, but I have kept the piece and can glue it back on. Really I want to know what you think would look best? How would you prep this? Do I sacrifice the top, broken one to reveal the middle ammonite, which looks to be the best of them? Do I leave it as is? I really appreciate any input

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).

Hi, I have found a fossil? which i couldn't find out what animal it came from. It looks like from a horse but I'm not sure, so i need some help, please. I found it at the East Coast of England, Shotley Gate beach near Harwich.

Found on Pakefield beach Suffolk UK. Any ideas as to what it could be please.

I was reading about the mass excavation of coprolites in the UK from the 1800s to WW2 and was wondering if there is any modern coprolite mining still going on there. I can't seem to find any so I'm guessing all the mines are closed and boarded up but just find it surprising that something that was once so common that it was ground up and turned into fertilizer on an industrial scale can now only be found in museums.

Hi there to all, I only started fossil hunting recently and have much to learn. Hopefully you folks can help me. I live in Central Scotland.

I am back with another one I cant quite work out! Being quite amateur I am still learning, so apologies if I'm mistaken on rock type etc. This was found on the jurassic coast of the UK, on the beach near Charmouth and is in shale/mudstone so already trying to break apart as you can see. I've been wondering if it's a sponge or root of some kind, or just mineral like pyrite as it has a goldy metallic sheen in some light, although it seems too brittle for that and has got what looks like more calci(?) layers when I look at the ends. Any help from all of you lovely lot would be greatly appreciated! Side note: if it is a fossil is there a good way to preserve these delicate shale ones to avoid the crumbling? I've been looking at the guides but there is so much information I might be tying myself in knots a little

Hi there! I stumbled across this forum whilst trying to ID some of my finds I've been struggling with, I have loved fossil hunting since I was a kid but my ID skills are fairly poor beyond the basics as it turns out! I am from the UK south coast, so lucky to have beach combing opportunities on my doorstep I look forward to browsing around and seeing what other people have found!

Hello! I’m looking for some help finding out what this could be… A few people have suggested a mammal claw, squid beak, therapod(?) tooth or just a piece of flint! Found at Highcliffe beach, Dorset, UK in amongst the shingle and shark teeth. Any help would be very much appreciated. Thank you.