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Can anyone tell me what me and my son found, thanks

Good to hear that the Northern Ireland has joined the dinosaur community. Here is the abstract Several specimens from the Lias Group (Lower Jurassic) of Northern Ireland have been suspected as dinosaurian in origin. Bone histology and morphology demonstrates that two of these, both from the same locality in Co. Antrim, demonstrably are from dinosaurs. We interpret one as the proximal end of the left femur of a basal thyreophoran ornithischian, and tentatively assign it to cf. Scelidosaurus. The other is the proximal part of the left tibia of an indeterminate neotheropod, perhaps a member of the averostran-line similar to Sarcosaurus, or a megalosauroid. These are the first dinosaur remains reported from anywhere in Ireland and some of the most westerly in Europe, and they are among only a small number of dinosaurs known from the Hettangian Stage. Two additional specimens are no longer considered to be from dinosaurs. We interpret one as a surangular or mandible fragment from a large marine reptile, perhaps an ichthyosaur or pliosaur; the other is a polygonal fragment of Paleocene basalt. Paywalled https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0016787820300638

Good evening/morning/afternoon everyone. Today I picked up this partial bivalve and I'm having trouble positively identifying it. Collected from a beach at a site on the North Eastern coast of Northern Ireland, known as Minnis North. Now let me describe the site to you! The site comprised of a mudflow involving lower the Jurassic lias, the cretaceous hibernian greensand formation and the Ulster White limestone formation. Material from the mudflow has been dumped off the side of an adjacent road at the foot of the landslide and directly onto the beach next to the road. It was on this beach I pick up the bivalve in a large pile of jurassic lias mud. Perhaps it's too battered and incomplete for a positive ID but I'd love to hear your thoughts. :-) Hollie

Found this rocks on White Bay Beach in Northern Ireland, just a short drive away from the Giants Causeway. One looks like the cross-section of a Shell, but the others I have no idea. Any thoughts?

Hi All. I'm from Belfast. Always had an amateur interest in fossils from a young age. Enjoy a hunting trip out and about even if it is hard to get the time nowadays. Hoping to learn and enjoy the forum.

Hi everyone. I am just a beginner and I decided to visit White Park Bay in Northern Ireland today with my dad and we found a number of interesting rocks and fossils (or at least I hope so) I think that we may have found a beleminte but I am not entirely sure. I hope that I'm not embarrassing myself, we may have just collected stones! I would be incredibly grateful if anyone can help me ID our finds.