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Hello, I bought this vertebra today at the Oxford Fossil and Mineral Show. The seller did not know what it belonged to, only that it was found in the Oxford Clay in Orton, Peterborough. Any help on what this came from would be greatly appreciated, thank you.

Hello everybody! This summer I spent a couple weeks in the U.S. and besides the famous museums (Smithsonian, Carnegie), I enjoyed a few less knwon destinations. I want to start with the Orton Geological Museum, that exhibits the geological collections of The Ohio State University, in Columbus, Ohio. In the hall you are welcomed by a reconstruction of "Cryolophosaurus ellioti", a Jurassic Theropod found in Antarctica by a geologist of the O.S.U. you can see a reconstruction of the skull in the museum itself. Fossils are given the most space. I found very interesting the cases exhibiting the local fossils of Ohio, ranging from the Ordovician to the Pleistocene. the Ordovician case featured trilobites, brachiopods, nautiloids, bryozoans and other clades. the carboniferous featured also plant fossils. the Pleistocene specimens were Mastodon teeth and other bones. Besides this, a case showing the latest acquisitions kept a very large and well preserved Isotelus trilobite, the state fossil of Ohio. another case displayed fossils from the notorious Jurassic lagerstatten of Solnhofen, Germany. Other highlights were a reconstructed skeleton of a Megalonyx found in Ohio and of a Glyptodon from Argentina. Overall I found the museum really intriguing, because it displayed both fossils from nearby location and from all over the world. the museum layout is a bit aged, but it does not prevent having fun! Don't forget to visit the adjoining library, where a few large specimens are kept (including a slab with two set of prints made by a Carboniferous amphibian). I hope I was clear enough. let me know if any of you has already paid a visit here of you are now intrigued to! Thanks, Fabio