Another of the MANY ichthyosaur reconstructions for my book “Journey To The Mesozoic vol. I “. This is Ichthyosaurus communis Blue Lias Formation, Early Jurassic England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #paleoart #ichthyosaurs #sciart

After a few hits with a hammer (and a little bit of glue afterwards) it's always so satisfying to reveal a find with its counterpart. A beautiful looking Microderoceras with some impressive looking tubercles along its ribs! #FossilFriday

This beautiful calcite Microderoceras birchi ammonite was revealed by our Guide, Dr. Paul Davis, from a nodule split on yesterday's Fossil Walk, what a beauty! Millie was thrilled to take the fossil home, a Jurassic treasure from her visit to Lyme Regis! #FossilFriday

This beautiful calcite Microderoceras birchi ammonite was revealed by our Guide, Dr. Paul Davis, from a nodule split on yesterday's Fossil Walk, what a beauty! Millie was thrilled to take the fossil home, a Jurassic treasure from her visit to Lyme Regis! #FossilFriday

#MaryAnning was always seen with her little dog and had several during her life. She sketched one in her notes in the 1820s. Its death in a rockfall in 1833 was local news in Dorset. Its replacement, which she called 'Tray', appears in her famous portrait of 1842. #NationalPetDay

We are thrilled to announce that supporters of the Fossil Festival, The Etches Collection, will be bringing ‘Pliosaurus – The Discovery of a Monster’ to this year’s Fossil Festival! For more information and to buy tickets, please see the link in our bio.

Fossil Festival 📷FILM SCREENING at The Marine Theatre - MARY ANNING AND THE DINOSAUR HUNTERS - Sunday 9th June, 6.15pm. Be amongst the first to see this much anticipated new film, shot on location in Lyme Regis. For ticket info see link in bio.

Our new term of 'Collaborate and Create' will start on 23rd April. The after school sessions for 11-15 year olds are held weekly on Tuesdays, 4-5.30pm, and are led by a group of local artists. For more information and to book, please see the link in our bio.

A moody Lyme today - but great weather for a fossil walk with Lyme Regis Museum

This is my first time ever painting or even drawing an icthyosaur, I think. It’s a Temnodontosaurus. I feel like everyone depicts icthyosaurs as graceful and dolphin-like. Nah man they still giant killer sea reptiles. Better luck next time mr plesiosaur.

The long journey.
(2018)

The idea here is how new species (The mammal on the tree trunk) occupy new habitats on new islands, for example. So-called island hopping.
#paleoart #Temnodontosaurus #ichthyosaurs #earlyjurassic #jurassic #paleoillustration

Two #ichthyosaurs from my recent visit to the Lyme Regis Museum for this #FossilFriday : a skull of the colossal #Temnodontosaurus platyodon and a mostly complete, acid-prepared skeleton of #Ichthyosaurus communis

Results from the #paleostream ! First half was Temnodontosaurus only, With T. longorostris (notice the torso-long skull... not) T. acutirostris and T. eurycephalus.
#paleoart #sciart #ichthyosaurs

The typical, elongated upper jaw of the incredible Excalibosaurus made this photo difficult to frame, but WHAT a beaut 😍

In front, is a cast of Mary and Joseph Anning’s famous #Temnodontosaurus specimen (original on display Natural History Museum)

Royal Ontario Museum #Ichthyosaur #FossilFriday

1829 saw the first scientific paper 'On the Discovery of Coprolites, or Fossil Faeces at Lyme Regis' published by W. Buckland. He was so fascinated with the subject, his friend, Henry De la Beche humorously illustrated him in a cave composed of coprolites and defecating animals.

When fossil hunting, Mary Anning kept finding curious 'bezoar stones' filled with churned up bones and fish scales. It was postulated the stones might have been the faeces of ancient animals, aka coprolites💩.The fossil poo then paved the way for agricultural revolution. 🧵