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Hi all, Was wondering if anyone could help identify this from Speeton. I’m pretty sure it’s a chunk of partially pyratised bone. It was found lying on top of the Kimmeridge Clay beach exposures (but not directly in the clay, so i guess it could have washed up from anywhere). Could it be from an ichthyosaur or plesiosaur? Would love to know roughly what sort of bone it is. It’s longest side is about 5.5cm in length. Would very much appreciate any help with identifying this. Many thanks! Gillian
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Dactylioceras ammonite with iridescence on the body chamber, yorkshire Uk.- 1 comment
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Funny story with this one, these are from a hunt from about a year ago. I put my bag in the washer and when taking it out this fell out. Lucky it survived after a wash. These are very small ones if they are belemnites.
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An unusually complete specimen although crowns are well known from this location. It has a very short stem consisting of only six or seven columnals, all of which bear cirri. Once thought to be an early comatulid, it is now thought to belong to a separate lineage of nearly stemless pentacrinitids (Hess 2014). References: Simms, M.J. 1989. British Lower Jurassic Crinoids. Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society, London:1-103, pls.1-15 (No. 581) Hess, H. 2014 Origin and radiation of the comatulids (Crinoidea) in the Jurassic. Swiss J Palaeontol 133, 23–34 Hess 2014 Origin…comatulids This was Invertebrate/Plant Fossil of the Month March 2015
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Found this on the foreshore at Kettleness yesterday (where incidentally there were far less fossils than I have ever seen there a dozen times or more) As anyone any idea what species it is? Apart from this only a couple of the usual Dactilyoceras Peter Ryder
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We found this boneblock on Yorkshire coast, we spent 12 hours walking over rocks, mud etc as well as climbing ropes in the rain up cliffs, we visited port, runswick and Kettleness, followed cleveland way back as high tide but ended up taking a wrong turn and a huge detour round the old railway line before heading back to the beach through 8" mud down a thin track, tide was too high to pass so after a short while we found a little opening in the undergrowth that led to a path that took us to freedom, good job we took our head torches as was pitch black, oh the joys, backpack was getting heavier & heavier as the hours passed, today we rest, anyways... looks like a huge humerus with other bits in there, will post more photos later when I'm alive, what you guys think ? Alan.
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Hello all! I'm wondering, if there are any fossil sites in the UK with fossil shark teeth. I know in UK there are tons of places with ammonites, but what about shark teeth? As long as it's shark teeth, I want to find it. But if there's megalodon teeth in UK, I'd spend days looking for one. Any ideas where to find shark teeth in UK? Thanks for all replies!
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Hi all, I recently found this massive bowling ball sized rock at Saltwick Bay near Whitby on the Yorkshire coast (Northern England). It is lower to middle Jurassic, i think about 180-170 million years old (possibly the Whitby Mudstone Formation). As you can see it it's full of various bones, which occur on almost all sides of the rock so they are probably running right through it. Prep for this one is going to be a nightmare i can tell and i don't have the right tools, but for now i really just want to try and figure out what i've got. I think it's fair to assume the bones are associated. The options for this bit of coast are fish (Gyrosteus), ichthyosaur, marine crocodile, plesiosaur or dinosaur. I was hoping based on the cross sectional shapes of some of the bones, and the texture of the bone itself, someone would be able to narrow down what it might be. Fish or reptile would be the first thing to determine. My obvious first assumption was marine reptile, but some of the fish on the Yorkshire coast like Gyrosteus are also huge (5m long) and i'm not very familiar with their bone structure. In this picture, i thought the rectangular bone towards the bottom might be a vertebra in cross-section. If so, from what? Could it be the edge of an ichthyosaur vertebra before it dips down in the centre? This bone is the biggest in the block, about 8 cm long and 3 cm thick. Continued in the next post!
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Hello all! I'm planning to go to UK next year someday and find some fossils at the yorkshire coast areas. Any suggestions on what time to go next year for the best 'loot'? And, what tools should I prepare and bring there? Besides, what can I find besides ammonites?
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Firstly, i never have any finds where i live so i doubt this is even a fossil. I have to travel to the coast for finds. Anyway, i was walking my dog in Wakefield in west yorkshire and found this rather unusual stone. Does anybody know what it is and why it has so many holes?
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Saurorhynchus acutus (Agassiz, 1844) rostropremaxilla. Lower Jurassic, Mulgrave Shale Member (bed 42), Falciferum Subzone. Near Whitby, Yorkshire. I spotted this little fish rostrum when I was looking for belemnites a couple of weeks ago. It was about to flake off the outcrop and I hadn't found anything else interesting so I brought it home as a consolation prize. After some research, it seems it's very rare here. The only recorded specimens I can find are a few (5?) 19th century ones, including the holotype which is also just a jaw. Other workers at the time (Tate & Blake) doubted their Yorkshire provenance, assuming them to have been from the Dorset Lower Lias, sold by dealers - a similar species is quite well known from there. Here's a very recent paper: Saurorhynchus revision. It is a lot more common in Germany, with more complete material. I prepped its hidden teeth today - 5 hours with a scalpel under a x20 binocular microscope. I think an air abrader would have blown them away. As found:
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I was wondering if anyone could help me ID what my father found on Tuesday in the Speeton clay (Reighton Gap), Yorkshire. It seems to be a jumbled mess of all sorts... scales, teeth, jaw/pincers, and at least one small vertebra. Ive only just started cleaning it up so theres probably lots more to uncover yet. Not sure which bed it came from but my guess is it was from the upper half of the cliffs; the recent wet weather has caused much of the upper cliffs to sludge down to the bottom which is where it was found, lying on top. The block itself is around 12-13cm in length and is mostly being held together by hard clay. At first, i got excited and thought it could be part of an ichthyosaur but after cleaning and closer inspection, it looks more to me like a fish, crab or lobster. I imagine its a bit too large to be a shrimp? I really hope someone can help identify what it is as my father has never found anything like this from Speeton before, in all his 55 years collecting from there! Attached a few photos but i have more if required. Thanks all!
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Oh my I don't know where to start really! My 10 year old daughter is interested in collecting fossils. Today we have been to Filey beach on the East Coast, UK. She found numerous fossils. I think I have managed to help her identify them as ammonite, brachiopod and gryphaea. One however has me stumped and google isn't helping, maybe bone or wood? (to be honest I'm not sure it even is a fossil!) she is proud of her finds and is desperate to know what it is, hence me being here asking for help! Many thanks in advance
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I bought this cut and highly polished 4.3cm Ichthyosaur Vertebrae. Can anyone confirm that this is really an Ichthy, i'd like to be sure. It was found at kettleness north yorkshire as an erratic nodule.
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Fossil of the Month, January 2015. Prepping details here: Jan 2015 finds of the month A partial, extremely rare, many armed starfish, the genus was assigned to a new family Plumasteridae in 2011: A. S. Gale. 2011. Asteroidea (Echinodermata) from the Oxfordian (Late Jurassic) of Savigna, Départment du Jura, France. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 130:69-89 This is from the same area and formation as the holotype of its species. The distinctive ossicles are common as disarticulated elements in sieved samples from Pliensbachian to Oxfordian. Excerpt from the above paper: Family Plumasteridae nov. Diagnosis: Multiarmed (12–22 arms) asteroids with broad adambulacrals which occupy the entire actinal sur- face of the arm and V distally: adambulacrals concavo- convex, 5–8 specialised interlocking articulation ridges and grooves articulate with ridges on adjacent adambulacral (modified ada2-3); abactinal ossicles with numerous lateral projections and embayments, and each carries a central large convex boss with which long, glassy, ridged spines articulate. Type genus: Plumaster Wright 1863, is the only genus included. It ranges from the Pliensbachian to the Oxfordian. Discussion: The Plumasteridae is established for the distinctive multiarmed genus Plumaster. This is distinguished from other multiarmed spinulosans such as solas- terids by the unusual boss-like spine articulations of the abactinal ossicles, and the highly modified adambulacral ossicles, which articulate by means of ridges and grooves.
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I was on a trip to yorkshire coast, picked this up at runswick bay in amongst the boulders. Apparently it's one of the best areas for bones. It looks like a bone to me, i want it to be a bone! Is it a bone?
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As often the case with brittle stars and other starfish, this shows the oral surface and is on the underside of the sandstone bed. The bed below it is a shale and the base of the sandstone represents a sudden influx of sediment which preserved the brittle star nearly intact. This was Invertebrate/Plant Fossil of the Month Sept 2014 and Fossil of the Year 2014.
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The phragmocone is partly in a nodule, the rostrum protruding from it - quite rare in these beds. It has the remains of an epirostrum. Assigned to Megateuthis in: Doyle, P. 1990-92 The British Toacian (Lower Jurassic) Belemnites. Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society, London: Part 2, 50-79, pls.18-28 (Publ. No. 587, vol. 145 Contentious taxonomy down the years - diagnostic features include the pair of dorsolateral apical grooves. Similar specimens of Acrocoelites sp. are supposed to have an additional ventral groove but this is variable ...
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An extreme morphology, much of the length consisting of an epirostrum - an overgrowth and extension of the normal rostrum. This may have been aragonitic and partially organic and is frequently crushed. Described under Youngibelus tubularis: Doyle, P. 1990-92 The British Toacian (Lower Jurassic) Belemnites. Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society, London: Part 2, 50-79, pls.18-28 (Publ. No. 587, vol. 145) Cuspiteuthis Abel 1916 was re-established as senior synonym of Youngibelus Riegraf in: Riegraf, W, Janssen, N.M.M & Schmitt-Riegraf, C. 1998. Cephalopoda dibranchiata fossiles (Coleoidea)II. -(In:) Westphal, F. (ed.) Fossilium Catalogus. 1: Animalia, Pars 135: 1-519, Leiden (Backhuys).
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Hi. I found this on the Yorkshire coast, UK (Jurassic.) Is it a dinosaur footprint? The 'footprint' isn't clear so I have drawn an outline on the second photo. The possible footprint measures 6.5 inches. Dinosaur footprints are quite common on the Yorkshire coast. Thanks, Daniel
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Well decided to work on a couple of bits last night for an hour, the bone is from Kettleness and is one I have been thinking about having a go at so finally decided to get it done. The ammonite was picked up from Port Mulgrave it had a nice ridge showing but as I removed the extra matrix of it a Hildo appeared. It is looking crushed so not sure how the middle will be, but if it is ok I may prep the other side to expose both ammonites.
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Hi. I found this in West Yorkshire, UK in the Pennine Lower Coal Measures formation (upper Carboniferous). It is in a Marine concretion. It contains what I think is a Phyllocarid but when I was looking at it today I noticed a Tully monster shape. I'm 99% sure it's just a fracture in the rock rather than anything interesting but I decided to post some pictures here just to be sure. Thanks, Daniel
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