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Very Large Ichthyosaur Vert


LiamL

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While searching the rocks at lowtide this week, near Whitby I came across this.

 

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While most people may dismiss this as a round rock, I have found afew before so recognised it for what it was. A large backbone encased in rock.

 

I took it back home and using my airpen removed the rock from one side of the vert. 

 

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I have kept the other side and edges with matrix, because I already have afew fully matrix free. This is the largest backbone I have found so far.

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13 minutes ago, LiamL said:

While most people may dismiss this as a round rock

The benefits of your hard earned knowledge of this site! Must have been a beast of an ichthyosaur!

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Nice one! I certainly wouldn't have recognised it for what it is just judging from the photograph, and I know a lot of other collectors out there would probably not either. Great find! :default_clap2:

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'There's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fibre and, in some cases, backbone' -- Terry Pratchett

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wow, what a big one, great. They really do not come up often..., congrets!

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Truly a nice find.

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Fossil hunting is easy -- they don't run away when you shoot at them!

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