Ichthyosauria

'Ichthyosauria – long fish shaped reptiles with a long thin snout lined with sharp teeth, the ichthyosaur is characterised by very large eyes. This Mesozoic reptile evolved into a highly specialised predator with a rapid swimming style and keen eyes.'

This is a place to hold some of my musings - mostly about palaeontology. I’m not one of the many knowledgeable geologists/palaeontologists who post blogs so I expect to drawl on about things that have amused me.

Tuesday, 5 July 2011

Wardie shore fossil photographs

Here are the photographs of the fossils I bought back form Wardie shore last week. These are nodules containing coprolites in spiral form. According to the geological conservation review (link below) they are presumed to be chondrichthyan - a cartilaginous fish (see Wikipedia chondrichthyan and Chondrichthyes). Cm ruler for scale.

 





 


 


  
Also here is a plant fragment.

This is a very soft shale and I expect it will crumble away when it drys out. I'm told that you can spray these with hair lacquer for preservation but I have no money so the experiment will have to wait.

Here is a link to the geological conservation review for Wardie shore (in pdf)
http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/pdf/grcdb/GCRsiteaccount1370.pdf
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