The realm of the fish lizard.

Welcome to 'The Fish Lizard'. Ammonites of the Lias. Ammonites of the Inferior Oolite. Bivalves Gastropods. The Pilton beds. Fossil 'dumping ground' My Ichthyosaur finds. Fossil Links.

Ichthyosaur bones.

Hurrah!! The distilled essence of fishlizardlyness! Meet Ichthyosaurus in the flesh! See the joke there? Good eh? No? Alright, I'll try and reach some semblance of maturity in the next couple of lines. After all, I'm almost a grown adult...

  These specimens have been collected on relatively few occasions over the last five years (I typically only make three fossil hunting trips a year), and are my personal favourites. The very first to be found was the small complete caudal vertabra (black).

I apologise for the images... This was my first attempt at scanning fossils (I had to blackmail the art department...) I now have a decent digital camera with macro, so I shall replace these next time I get the chance.

edit: The camera died on a trip to Charmouth. It is late, ex, no more. It has kicked the bucket, is pushing daisies...

Back to square one then. Hover cursor over photo's to get a description. Yes, it took me ages to get that to work.

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The Ichthyosaur assemblage.

 

 

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Bottom left: Scapula fragment (presumed) Oxford/Kimmeridge clay mudslips 1/4 mile east of Weymouth.

Above left: worn pebble with many rib fragments (8 in total) lose in shingle, east end of Monmouth beach, Lyme Regis.

Above right: fragment of rib blade. lose in shingle, Black Venn

 Above: Orbital skull fragment. Lose in shingle, Black Venn.

 Right: Dorsal vertabra with tooth marks. Oxford/Kimmeridge clay mudslips 1/4 mile east of Weymouth.

Below: Two complete caudal vertabrae: Pinhay beach (monmouth) - lose in mudslip.

One partial caudal vertabra. Lose in mudslips, Black Venn.

(Other fossils on this image are Serpulcata (worm) a greensand ammo (Schloenbachia (sp?)) and bivalve Luscina)