Christmas Eve Ichthyosaur Jaw

[Welsh Wizard]

I decided to make a Christmas Eve visit to Penarth, South Wales. 

 

I only found the one piece but it makes for a good early Christmas present.

 

It's what's left of an early Jurassic ichthyosaur jaw. You can see a really good outline of where the jaw was, along with chunks of jaw bone that are still attached to the rock. The surface of the rock has a number of teeth showing which I'll look to prep out next year.

 

Happy Christmas.

 

Nick

[RandyB]

Congrats, looking forward to the prep.  One of the first books I ever read about "dinosaurs" had a drawing of an ichthyosaur that has stuck in my head for 40 yrs.  Always found them fascinating.  very nice Christmas present indeed

[DE&i]

That's great @Welsh Wizard Xmas comes early.....with still just over six hours to go.

 

Off Topic : Nice profile pic...

 

[Gizmo]

Congrats and best wishes! 

[FossilDudeCO]

congrats on a nice find!

Happy Christmas!

[Ridgehiker]

3 hours ago, DarrenElliot said:

That's great @Welsh Wizard Xmas comes early.....with still just over six hours to go.

 

Off Topic : Nice profile pic...

 

 

Nice Christmas find.

 

Six hours?  We have a long wait yet. Hope Santa has something left in his bag after distributing all the fossils to good boys and girls.

[Triceratops]

Great find as ever Nick, have a merry Christmas!

[Plantguy]

Thats interesting. Is that small light colored horizontal tear drop shaped item above the jaw in the right of the photo a tooth? 

 

Regards, Chris