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SPONDYLUS spinosus

CRETACEOUS

UPPER CHALK

SURREY

HOPLOPARIA longimana

CRETACEOUS

UPPER GREENSAND

LYME REGIS

DORSET

PLESIOSAURUS sp.

JURASSIC

LOWER LIAS

CHARMOUTH

DORSET

ACID PREP.

ICHTHYOSAURUS sp.

JURASSIC

LOWER LIAS

CHARMOUTH

DORSET

ACID PREP

NAUTILUS ? CENOCERAS

MIDDLE JURASSIC

BRIDPORT SANDS

DORSET

ICHTHYOSAURUS sp.

JURASSIC

LOWER LIAS

SOMERSET

TEMNODOTOSAURUS platyodon

JURASSIC

LOWER LIAS

BIRCHI SUB ZONE

CHARMOUTH

DORSET

ACID PREP

TEMNOCIDARIS sceptrifera

CRETACEOUS

UPPER CHALK

SURREY

ASTEPHUS antiquus

MIDDLE EOCENE

GREEN RIVER FORMATION

LANEY MEMBER

LAKE GOSIUTE

ROCK SPRINGS

WYOMING

ICHTHYOSAURUS breviceps

JURASSIC

LOWER LIAS

CHARMOUTH

DORSET

APPLIED TO MATRIX

ASTEROCERAS aff stellare

JURASSIC

LOWER LIAS

OBTUSUM ZONE

FRODINGHAM IRONSTONE

SCUNTHORPE

275 mm

ICHTHYOSAURUS sp.

JURASSIC

LOWER LIAS

OBTUSUM ZONE WOOD STONE

LYME REGIS

DORSET.

CAUDAL VERTEBRAE 110 mm DIA

ACID PREP

BECHEICERAS gallicum ( Spath )

JURASSIC

LOWER LIAS

DAVOEI ZONE

STONEBARROW

CHARMOUTH

DORSET

STONEBARROW " MUDSTONE " MULTI BED FROM BELOW THE ASTEROCERAS stellare NODULES. WITH :

ASTEROCERAS margaritoides, XIPHEROCERAS dudressieri,

CYMBITES laevigatus, PROMICROCERAS planicosta and others

ECHIOCERAS raricostatatum, NAUTILUS sp.

JURASSIC

LOWER LIAS

STONEBARROW

CHARMOUTH

DORSET.

AEGASTEROCERAS aff sagittarium

JURASSIC

LOWER LIAS

FRODINGHAM IRONSTONE

SCUNTHORPE

TWO FERTILIZED FEMALE SEED CONES FROM A ' MONKEY PUZZLE ' TREE STILL ATTACHED TO AXIS

GROUP - PLANTS : CONIFERALES

NAME - ARAUCARITES

JURASSIC

LOWER LIAS

BLACK VEN MARLS

LYME REGIS

DORSET.

THIS NODULE WAS NOT FOUND INSITU BUT FROM THE ID OF THE SMALL AMMONITES FOUND IN THE MATRIX AND THE TEXTURE OF THE ROCK I THINK IT IS A ' TOP STONE ' NODULE FROM THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF THE BLACK VEN

MARLS JUST BELOW THE BELEMNITE MARLS

NOTE THAT IN LIFE THE CONES WOULD HAVE BEEN VERTICAL AND NOT PENDULOUS AS SHOWN HERE

GLOMERULA gordialis

CRETACROUS

UPPER CHALK

SURREY

SPONDYLUS spinosus

WITH A GASTROPOD BORING POSSIBLY BY A MEMBER OF THE NATICACEA AS THE BORING IS CLEANLY CUT AND NEATLY BEVELLED NOT JAGGED

CRETACEOUS

UPPER CHALK

SURREY

ICHTHYOSAURUS SP.

POSTERIOR PADDLE AND PELVIC GIRDLE

JURASSIC

LOWER LIAS

SOMERSET

EPOPHIOCERAS sp.

JURASSIC

LOWER LIAS

LYME REGIS

DORSET

CORONICERAS sp.

JURASSIC

LOWER LIAS

SOMERSET

CALCAREOUS TUBE OF A FAN OR BRISTLE - WORM CEMENTED TO A FRAGMENT OF SPONDULUS SHELL

GROUP : POLYCHAETA

CRETACEOUS

UPPER CHALK

SURREY

ASTEROCERAS stellare

JURASSIC

LOWER LIAS

STONEBARROW

CHARMOUTH

DORSET

350 mm

PSEUDOCADOCERAS sp

JURASSIC

LOWER CALLOVIAN

KELLAWAYS ROCK

WILTSHIRE

ARNIOCERAS semicostatum

- krididioides

- miserabile

- falcaries

JURASSIC

LOWER SINEMURIAN

HOLDERNESS COAST

YORKSHIRE

LYTOCERAS fimbriatum - AMALTHEUS margartatus

JURASSIC

MIDDLE LIAS

UPPER PLIENSBACHIAN

MARGARITATUS ZONE

EYPE

DORSET

ICHTHYOSAURUS sp.

UNUSUAL 3D PRESERVATION OF A SKULL ( MINUS THE LOWER JAWS ) OF AN ICHTHYOSAURUS WITH NO DISTORTION OR COMPRESSION, FOUND IN SITU IN A NODULE AND PREPARED WITH ACETIC ACID, A SINGLE CORACOID WAS FOUND 2 METRES AWAY IN THE SAME BED ALSO WITHIN A NODULE

JURASSIC

LOWER LIAS

semicostatum / turneri ZONE

CHARMOUTH

DORSET

INDETERMINATE FISH POSSIBLY HETEROLEPIDOTES SP.

JURASSIC

LOWER LIAS

LILSTOCK

SOMERSET

BODY WAS WITHIN A NODULE . SKULL AND PECTORAL FINS ARE IN SHALE

PAIRED PELVIC FINS AND TAIL WERE LOST TO THE SEA AND HAVE BEEN MODELED. APPLIED TO MATRIX

A REMARKABLY WELL PRESERVED ICHTHYOSAURUS communis FROM THE JURASSIC LOWER LIAS FLATSTONES OF STONEBARROW CLIFFS CHARMOUTH DORSET

THE FLATSTONE WAS IN FOUND IN SITU SKULL FIRST INTO THE CLIFFS - THE TAIL DEFLECTION WAS EX NODULE AND NOT RECOVERED.

PREPERATION WAS FINISHED WITH ACID TO REVEAL EXTENSIVE SKIN COVERAGE - THE SKIN SHOWING IS THE INNER SURFACE OF THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE BODY, THE UPPER LEFT SIDE SKIN HAVING BEEN LOST PRIOR TO FOSSILIZATION

LEFT FORE PADDLE WITH A PROMICROCERAS planicosta

PARTLY COVERED BY FILIMENTS ALONG THE TRAILING EDGE OF THE FOREFIN. THE FILIMENTS REDUCED TURBULENCE AND CAVITATION WHICH WOULD HAVE GIVEN WARNING TO PREY OF THE APPROCH OF THE ICHTHYOSAUR

ALTHOUGH RARE FILIMENTS ARE REPORTED FROM OTHER SPECIMENS

DORSAL FIN-SPINE OF A HYBODONT SHARK HYBODUS delabechei

with 30 associated teeth

JURASSIC

LOWER LIAS

PINHAY BAY

LYME REGIS

DORSET