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Jack Parker-Tyreman posted an image in the group Alf Museum from the myFOSSIL app 3 years, 6 months ago
3 years, 6 months ago3 years, 6 months agoAny thoughts on what this is?
Found this in a Jurassic mud cliff piece dating to 198 million years ago. It was also found in Lyme Regis. My best bet is it’s from an ichthyosaur? #fossil
Another thing I’d like to add, is if you don’t know where and what Lyme Regis is (which I take most of you to know as it’s the most popular site down the Jurassic coast and one if not the best place to fossil hunt in England). It’s located in South west England on the Jurassic coast near Cornwall and is situated in Dorset. Lyme Regis is built on ancient early Jurassic deposits from an ancient sea bed that had inhabitants like the common squid like ammonite or belemnite, to the great ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs of the Mesozoic.
it might be bone because of the honeycomb structure
also what is jarasic coast like cause I want to go there soon. how often are fossils there? what are the most common fossils etc.?
Ammonites are the most common, I’m in Cornwall at the moment and I wasn’t to Lyme Regis on the way
Bring a hammer with you to split rocks
And you need to try and find ichthyosaur and plesiosaurs vertebrae
I believe out of everything that the bone I show in front of you is part of a marine reptile
l see the resemblance to a limb bone from a marine reptile. it’s dreadfully small though, but it could be a juvenile
Indeed
It could be from a backflipper
I’ll put a picture of an ichthyosaur up
thanks for helping @jack-parker-tyreman😊