Belemnite Battlefield

[LiamL]

Today i carried this battlefield back up the cliff. I’ve been looking for a decent fresh one for a while. Unfortunately they are all quite heavy, like this one!

I think a bit of pen work and it will reveal even more!

anyone know the species?

[LiamL]

While wet

[Darktooth]

Great find! I bet that it will look really nice if prepped out.

[Tidgy's Dad]

Very beautiful indeed. 

I think i know, but not going to commit myself yet.

Where? Whitby?

When? Upper Lias? 

Really great death assemblage. 

[caldigger]

Please do revisit this thread when you have some prep work into it.  I think thats going to be wild once finished.

[JohnBrian]

That is a great find!

[ynot]

Very nice find.

I too want to see the prepped product.

[Nimravis]

I would have had not problem deciding if I was going to carry that bad boy up a cliff or a mountain- in my backpack it would have been placed.

[LiamL]

9 hours ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

Very beautiful indeed. 

I think i know, but not going to commit myself yet.

Where? Whitby?

When? Upper Lias? 

Really great death assemblage. 

Whitby yep! Think it’s upper lias from under the abbey.

[Ludwigia]

I think that it's about time for you collectors to install a portable cable car that can move along the coast as needed

[JohnBrewer]

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[TqB]

Great example, Liam, that should pen out well!

 

You've got the usual two species -  Acrocoelites vulgaris (fat) and A. subtenuis (thin). (You may also have Simpsonibelus dorsalis which is less common, and I've found a single, much larger A. trisulculosus which is previously unrecorded - it usually occurs much lower down, in the Jet Rock proper.)

 

The bed is part of the Ovaticeras ovatum layer, bed no. 48 of Howarth, at the top of both the Falciferum Zone and Mulgrave Shale Member (old Jet Rock Series.)

 

Here's one I've rough penned but needs finishing.

 

[LiamL]

9 hours ago, TqB said:

Great example, Liam, that should pen out well!

 

You've got the usual two species -  Acrocoelites vulgaris (fat) and A. subtenuis (thin). (You may also have Simpsonibelus dorsalis which is less common, and I've found a single, much larger A. trisulculosus which is previously unrecorded - it usually occurs much lower down, in the Jet Rock proper.)

 

The bed is part of the Ovaticeras ovatum layer, bed no. 48 of Howarth, at the top of both the Falciferum Zone and Mulgrave Shale Member (old Jet Rock Series.)

 

Here's one I've rough penned but needs finishing.

 

If mine comes out like that i’ll be very happy!