Ichthyosaur Jaw

[Welsh Wizard]

Hi

 

just putting this in as a placeholder.

 

Found today at Penarth, South Wales, UK. An ichthyosaur jaw with some other bones. It’s in a shelly limestone which is hard to prep but fingers crossed.

 

 

[Welsh Wizard]

Sorry, I’ve tried to upload other photos and it won’t let me 

[RJB]

I can see the picture but really dont see much?  Stains? 

 

RB

[JohnBrian]

Refresh your browser window and then put it in a separate post from the original.

[Welsh Wizard]

 

I’ve reduced the size of the picture as refreshing and leaving the website isn’t working (when it normally does)

 

you can see the bones better in this picture. There’s a big bone to the left of my shoe lace and the jaw runs at about 340 degrees and is lighter coloured.

 

N

[Welsh Wizard]

Tiny bit of prep. Really sticky

 

[KCMOfossil]

[Ptychodus04]

Looks like a nightmare.

[Welsh Wizard]

Oh well. You win some you lose some.

 

Looks like it’s just a broken partial lower jaw and a worn quadrate bone. No other bones there.

 

Its gone on the discard pile

[jpc]

Discard it my way.... We would love to see a photo of what you call a Discard.  

 

[Notidanodon]

3 hours ago, Welsh Wizard said:

Oh well. You win some you lose some.

 

Looks like it’s just a broken partial lower jaw and a worn quadrate bone. No other bones there.

 

Its gone on the discard pile

like @jpc said i wouldnt mind some of that discard pile

[Welsh Wizard]

2 hours ago, jpc said:

Discard it my way.... We would love to see a photo of what you call a Discard.  

 

 

Ha. It’s a tough matrix both in terms of prep and preservation. It’s really down to the luck of the draw.

 

I’ll do you a photo this weekend if that’s OK.

 

N

[Randyw]

I agree with will and jpc! If that qualifies for the discard pile I wanna get into that pile! 

[JohnBrewer]

Happy to take it off your hands Nick  

 

have you tried acid prep?

[Randyw]

Everyone wants wizards discards!

[Ptychodus04]

22 minutes ago, Randyw said:

Everyone wants wizards discards!

Not me, that looks like a major time waste.

[Welsh Wizard]

Haha.

 

My discard pile is pretty small as most of it goes to the local tip or school.

 

10 minutes ago, Ptychodus04 said:

Not me, that looks like a major time waste.

 

It’s the luck of the draw. You can get some nice bones but prep can be painful.

[Ptychodus04]

33 minutes ago, Welsh Wizard said:

It’s the luck of the draw. You can get some nice bones but prep can be painful.

Yep. I've drooled over some of your finds in the past.

[Welsh Wizard]

1 hour ago, Ptychodus04 said:

Yep. I've drooled over some of your finds in the past.

 

Ha

 

I’m in awe of your prep and craft skills, so we can drool in unison

 

N

[RJB]

  Couldnt see any of that in the first photo's but im with Kris, looks like a nightmare to prep.  Good luck though.  Looking forward to seeing the end prep.

 

RB

[Welsh Wizard]

Not sure if I’ll do any more apart from cut block to size and tidy up. Back of the jaw. Lower Jurassic, Hettangian, ichthyosaur.

 

 

 

[Randyw]

Looks Cool! You may not be excited about it but I’m 

[Welsh Wizard]

A bit more progress. Pyritic in places but there’s more bone than I thought. Length of jaw bone is 200 mm.

 

[paulgdls]

Hi Nick,

 

That looks like pterygoid to me.

 

best wishes

 

Paul

 

 

 

[Welsh Wizard]

3 hours ago, paulgdls said:

Hi Nick,

 

That looks like pterygoid to me.

 

best wishes

 

Paul

 

 

 

 

Hi Paul. Thanks. You may be right. I’ll take a look at some examples. 

 

Nick