Sussex U.K finds.

[Natalie81]

25 minutes ago, Jonwealden said:

Was lucky enough to make an amazing find, i collected this vertebra a couple of days ago.  A gigantic proximal caudal vertebra from an Iguanodontid Dinosaur.

 

What makes it awesome is its size.   I have carefully researched and compared its scale to Iguanodon Bernissartensis, which represents the largest known Iguanodont at about 10 metres. This is at least 15% larger than the corresponding vertebrae in Iguanodon B. !!  I do love Dinosaur, so this really made me shake with excitement as soon as i set eyes on it.

I had a bit of trouble holding it up for the photograph, and i'm quite a strong guy.

 

Wauw! Congratulations 

[Fossildude19]

Jon, 

 

Thanks for sharing all of these spectacular finds with us!
Very cool stuff.

[Birdman]

On 10/01/2020 at 1:23 PM, Jonwealden said:

Bexhill and Hastings beaches are good for Dinosaur and fish fossils. Usually sea worn but not always ! Anyway, good to see there are some Dino fans on here.

A wonderfully rich bone bed nodule from Hastings. Look forwards to exploring this one ! Hopefully some Dino teeth inside........

 

That looks like a tooth in there straight away - the tube-like piece that's sheared off or worn down, visible in middle pic. Or maybe it's just a large fish scale. Hard to tell from pics alone. Maybe dino or croc tooth. Nice finds we are both making this season already. It just shows how this 'new' material is constantly being washed in from the seabed and beyond! Hundreds of collectors here before us, there wouldn't be much left at all if fossils stayed in the exact spot once they become exposed from beneath the ever changing massive sand dunes. They would have been collected, no doubt about it. Fossil collecting was very popular here and across Britain during Victorian/Mary Anning times. Many specimens ended up in private and museum collections, not eroded away to nothing, which is fantastic!

[Jaimin013]

Very nice finds thanks for sharing photos!

[Jonwealden]

Welcome Tim.

Thanks for the replies fellow collectors,  hoping to find more in the last few weeks of the ''good collecting'' season.

[Omnomosaurus]

Some amazing finds you've got there; congrats!

 

....I really need to find an excuse to visit the south coast one of these days (or at least make it sound like I don't just want to walk around on beaches, staring at the ground)! 

[dinosaur man]

1 hour ago, Omnomosaurus said:

Some amazing finds you've got there; congrats!

 

....I really need to find an excuse to visit the south coast one of these days (or at least make it sound like I don't just want to walk around on beaches, staring at the ground)! 

Agreed 

[Jonwealden]

Hi hope collecting is going well for everyone.

 

Made some finds on the recent long tides here :

 

Hypselospinus (?) caudal vertebra

 

 

Ventral view

 

[Jonwealden]

Hypselopsinus caudal vertebra exhibiting tooth scrape marks

 

[Jonwealden]

...those tooth scrapes, three running parallel , the middle of which is longer and has a gap to another scrape

 

 

 

Deep Gnaw grooves and small indents on the centrum face

 

[Jonwealden]

Fairly large Iguanodont (Barilium?) caudal verterba

 

[Jonwealden]

Very large top of femur, 90% the size of Iguanodon Bernissartensis.

 

 

The femur head is sheared. 

 

 

[Jonwealden]

Partial Pliosaur vertebra  9 cm across

 

[Jonwealden]

Had two finds that are among my favourites in 22 years collecting. One took a fair bit of researching !  I will post these up this evening when back at the PC and get some decent photographs of them. 

 

Cheers

[Jonwealden]

Lepidotes ( large armoured fish) body section showing shiny black scales.

 

[Ludwigia]

Congrats on the latest finds. You sure do have a good eye. I guess the season helps as well, eh?

[Jonwealden]

Yes, thankfully, the recent spate of high winds / rough seas helped create fresh exposures of Cretaceous material.  Also, some very long spring tides recently have enabled scanning over areas that have apparently been scarcely searched before.

 

[Jonwealden]

24cm Theropod proximal tibia section.  This bone has two large bite marks (evidently penetrated by an oversize premax tooth and lower jaw tooth,  which clamped down to perhaps move or pick up the bone). Shown in next post.

 

After some research (including reading up on D.Naish description of the Theropod tibia section collected just a few miles from here) this tibia is not Allosaurid. The age of this locality virtually rules out Megalosaurid.  

Baryonyx sp tibia remains is crushed and fragmentary.  This may be Baryonyx, although the Suchomimus tibia has a fibial crest that appears relatively short (as in Allosaurs).  

 

The shaft has much of the fibial crest ( 11cm long before the break )  and the tibial foramen, which is present in other Theropods, in close proximity to this crest.  

 

The shaft minimum width  is 10.5cm. This specimen must have belonged to a large Theropod, perhaps 11 metres.  Similar to Suchomimus in size.

 

Posterior view, TF=TIBIAL FORAMEN.  FC= FIBIAL CREST.

 

Lateral view, the TF can be seen lower left. The fibial crest is the ridge extending from the left to near middle of the shaft.     Showing the slight curvature of the tibia.

 

Anterior view, showing the other side of the Fibial crest (on the left side), with muscle tear detail preserved.

 

 

Proxmial break, hollow interior.

 

Distal break

 

[Jonwealden]

What appear to be two large teeth bite penetrations. There are added shallow indents around this area.

 

 

 

 

The lower penetration angle is more oblique 

[Jonwealden]

Close ups of Fibula crest and Tibia foramen

 

 

Looking down the shaft 

 

[Jonwealden]

A beautiful well preserved Iguanodon jawbone. No teeth, but a great specimen.  18 cm long.  Barilium ?  8 metre Dinosaur. 

 

 

Anterior break showing detailed interior of jawbone.

 

 

[Jonwealden]

Lateral view, showing three foramen

 

 

 

 

 

 

[dinosaur man]

Even more amazing finds!!, can’t wait to see what else you find.

[Jonwealden]

Theropod tooth scrapes, gouges and indents on the Iguanodon jaw, noticed these a while after finding the jaw. 

 

 

 

 

In the privileged position of holding up a jaw section of both Iguanodon and Baryonyx/spinosaur for comparison.  The Iguanodon around 7-8 metres. The Baryonyx around 8-9 metres.  Quite a difference in size.

 

 

[Jonwealden]

A more slender Iguanodontid jawbone, i found several years ago