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last week my girlfriend and I went camping for a few days on the Isle of wight for 5 days of fossil hunting.

It took us 2 ferries to get there so the journey to there was pretty relaxed.

the 1st day we spent walking the shore from Atherfield to Brook bay, it was quite a walk, but we did find a few dinosaur bones.

the other days we visited multiple locations on the Island like Yaverland, Sandown, St Catherines point, Compton bay,...

We did get quite a variety of different fossils from IOW Dinosaur bones, lobsters, ammonites, fish remains,... the most spectacular find was made by my girlfriend, she found a realy nice Pterosaur tooth.

 

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The pterosaur tooth:

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Wow!! Those are amazing finds! Well done to both of you! I am incredibly :envy:. I would love to make at least a weekend trip there to do some hunting soon. If you have any tips or recommendations I’d be happy to hear them. 

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15 minutes ago, thelivingdead531 said:

Wow!! Those are amazing finds! Well done to both of you! I am incredibly :envy:. I would love to make at least a weekend trip there to do some hunting soon. If you have any tips or recommendations I’d be happy to hear them. 

Thx. :)

 

You find a lot of info online for the IOW, but I'll send you a pm with all the info I know about the place. Some locations were not easy to get to.

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Beautiful fossils! The pterosaur tooth is a spectacular find, something I hope to find someday. Any idea on the genera of the ammonites? A few of them remind me of Mortoniceras sp.

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29 minutes ago, Heteromorph said:

Beautiful fossils! The pterosaur tooth is a spectacular find, something I hope to find someday. Any idea on the genera of the ammonites? A few of them remind me of Mortoniceras sp.

Thx.

 

The ammonites are mostly from the Schloenbachia genus. But there are quite a lot of differen forms in them. 

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Awesome fossils 

“...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved.” ~ Charles Darwin

Happy hunting,

Mason

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Great finds Kevin :wub: Congrats !!!

I especially like that tooth. But are you sure that it's really a pteroaur tooth? :headscratch:

Many greetings from Germany ! Have a great time with many fossils :)

Regards Sebastian

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14 minutes ago, belemniten said:

 

Great finds Kevin :wub: Congrats !!!

I especially like that tooth. But are you sure that it's really a pteroaur tooth? :headscratch:

Thx. That layer where it was found is known for pterosaur material. It is a fresh water deposit. We showed it to a local museum, they confirmed Pterosaur.

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1 minute ago, Manticocerasman said:

Thx. That layer where it was found is known for pterosaur material. It is a fresh water deposit. We showed it to a local museum, they confirmed Pterosaur.

Ok thanks for the information! I have to visit that location once :)

Congrats :yay-smiley-1:  I didn't found a pteroaur tooth until now but I am working on it :P

Many greetings from Germany ! Have a great time with many fossils :)

Regards Sebastian

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Very nice finds, Kevin. Looks like the Isle is still really worth the visit. Last time I was there I was busy watching Jimi Hendrix play God Save the Queen, so I didn't get around to doing any collecting ;)

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Nice finds! :)

Some of those ammonites are really nice and the pterosaur tooth is a beauty. 

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1 minute ago, Natalie81 said:

Thanks for the great holiday on Wight. You are awesome! X 

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a little update, Natalie preped one of my finds from Yaverland. at first I tought it was a Hybodont tooth, but after the prep it turned out to be a realy nice Hybodont cephalid clasper ( head spine ) :)

 

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Really nice and interesting finds, hopefully next time I go I can get a bit of your luck haha

 

Thanks Matt

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55 minutes ago, Manticocerasman said:

turned out to be a really nice Hybodont cephalid clasper ( head spine )

A  cephalid clasper is not a head spine. Should be on the other end from the head.

 

Pretty nice find!

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29 minutes ago, ynot said:

A  cephalid clasper is not a head spine. Should be on the other end from the head.

 

Pretty nice find!

Tony, what do you exactly mean by the other end from the head?

I found pictures of this fossil as wel under cephalid clasper and under head spine :headscratch:

 

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4 minutes ago, Manticocerasman said:

Tony, what do you exactly mean by the other end from the head?

I found pictures of this fossil as wel under cephalid clasper and under head spine :headscratch:

 

A cephalid clasper is a sexual organ. Used By males to hold the female in place during procreation activities.

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22 minutes ago, ynot said:

A cephalid clasper is a sexual organ. Used By males to hold the female in place during procreation activities.

so it is a cephalid spine.

 

this is a screenshot of a paper on hybodonts: they do refer to this fossil as a cephalid spine.

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Definition of Term
cephalic clasper
(english) A mace-like spiny-headed rod found on the mid-dorsal surface of heads of male Holocephali. Thought to aid in holding the female during copulation.    

 

Looks like I had the wrong area of the body for these things. Always thought they were in a pelvic region.:shrug:

I am so confused!:headscratch:

Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys."

Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough."

 

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