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adsdating
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Hello, I just wanted to thank everybody who kindly replied to my request for help. I'm now the proud owner of several small ammonites and a belemnite (I believe), chipped from one of the rocks with a hammer, chisel and the aid of my three year old daughter.
Mr. Whittington wrote-(in a message accidentally deleted) Age: Jurassic, probably lower Jurassic. I am not from that area of the U.K. but Dorset is famous for its Ammonites and other fossils. See John Fowles 'The French Leiutenant's Woman'! I will look in a few books. Cant find Cricket St. Thomas on multimap.com, any other locations? but if the rocks found were loose pebbles then they could have originated from quite an area around where they were found.
The rocks were apparently from the Lyme bay region, and are around 5kilo's in weight so I'm sure that they would have moved. Once again thank you to everybody who helped me.
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bluebonics
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Good stuff. The belemnite will be 'bullet' shaped and if complete (they often are'nt will have a cone shaoed hole in the blunt (front) end. You should also be able to see the radiating calcite structure of the rostrum (rostrum, the preffered technical name for the hard calcite bit most commonly found as a fossil. Some books use older terms and call it the 'Guard'.
Try a wen search on 'Mary Anning' who is an important early collector and paleontologist from Lyme Regis.
Kind Regards.
Nigel Whittington Hull East Yorkshire
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