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Hi

 

Here’s another fossil I found over Christmas.

 

These bones are pretty rare and are the articulated ischium and pubis from an ichthyosaur.

 

No prep involved apart from cutting the block to size and applying a thin coat of varnish to increase the contrast between the bone and matrix.

 

The fossil is from the Hettangian of Penarth.

 

The block before:

 

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56 minutes ago, RuMert said:

Very nice! Looks like you can open your own ichthyosaur museum with all those finds:thumbsu: What is this book you are reading? Is it available? Thank you

 

Thanks. I’ve changed the title and I’ll post some more of my stuff on the same thread.

 

The book is “The Handbook of Palaeoherpetology” Part 8 Ichthyopteryia.

 

It was about £100 when I bought it about 10 years ago. 

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Here’s part of an articulated ichthyosaur tail along with a partial rear paddle.

 

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Found Lilstock, preplanorbis zone. Jurassic, Hettangian.

 

It belongs to Leptonectes tenuiorostris.

i only know this because I have the rest of the ichthyosaur.

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A piece of ichthyosaur skull with a large tooth attached.

 

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Lavernock Point. Hettangian, Lower Jurassic

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A single rib from an ichthyosaur. Nice size and excellent preservation. 

 

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Lavernock Point. Hettangian, Lower Jurassic

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A femur from a very large ichthyosaur.

 

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Aust. Triassic (Rhaetian) bone bed.

 

You can see the bone bed conglomerate still attached to the bone

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A partial ichthyosaur paddle.

 

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Saltwick Bay. Jet rock beach pebble. Toarcian, Jurassic

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A nice single black vertebra from an ichthyosaur

 

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Lyme Regis. Charmouth area, Jurassic

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A probable partial jaw of an ichthyosaur.

 

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Lavernock Point. Triassic (Rhaetian) bone bed. 

 

This is is part of a long but thin bone and is probably one of the bones that made up the rostrum of a very large ichthyosaur.

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A nice partially articulated section of an ichthyosaur.

 

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Found by my son at Lavernock Point. Hettangian, Lower Jurassic 

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Very nice specimens indeed. I have a number of ichthyosaur verts, but not much other stuff. Ichthyosaur verts IMHO are a kind of site productivity visual marker: belemnite fragments - ammo fragments - complete ammos - worn small bone fragments - ichthyosaur verts - complete bones - ...

 

 

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14 hours ago, RuMert said:

Very nice specimens indeed. I have a number of ichthyosaur verts, but not much other stuff. Ichthyosaur verts IMHO are a kind of site productivity visual marker: belemnite fragments - ammo fragments - complete ammos - worn small bone fragments - ichthyosaur verts - complete bones - ...

 

 

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Thats a great collection you’ve got there. 

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Here’s one of my favourites.

 

A single paddle digit from a very large ichthyosaur along with a 4 cm long plesiosaur tooth.

 

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Aust, Triassic (Rhaetian), conglomerate bone bed.

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Pterygoid bone from an ichthyosaur. This is the bone in the roof of the mouth.

 

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Penarth, Hettangian, Lower Jurassic

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Nice humerus from a small ichthyosaur.

 

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Lavernock Point, Hettangian, Lower Jurassic

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Worn quadrate bone from the back of an ichthyosaur’s skull.

 

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St Mary’s Well Bay, Hettangian, Caloceras Zone, Lower Jurassic

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Partial disarticulated skull, showing parts of the rostrum, some skull bones and a single vertebra.

 

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Lavernock Point, Hettangian, Lower Jurassic

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A nice line of articulated ichthyosaur vertebra.

 

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Ravenscar, North Yorkshire, Jurassic. Found by my daughter

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An unprepped piece of shale showing a piece of rostrum, single paddle digit and neural from an ichthyosaur.

 

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Sandsend, North Yorkshire, Toarcian, Jurassic. 

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