Ammonite
This well-preserved ammonite is not only beautiful, but is quite large for this species.
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Ammonite
Male and female? This specimen has been broken and restored, and its missing centre has been replaced with a small specimen of the same type of ammonite. But it is still quite beautiful and unusually large. This was probably a female ammonite, bigger than the males of the species as extra room was needed to…
Ammonite
Mantelliceras is named after the well-known fossil hunter Gideon Mantell. This specimen is incomplete, but shows the well-preserved strong ribbing characteristic of this species.
Ammonite
This large ammonite has graced the main stairwell of Lyme Regis Museum for many years. It has kindly been loaned to the museum by Old Forge Fossils of Broad Street.
Ammonite
Harpoceras falciferum is the marker for the Falciferum Zone of the Lower Toarcian stage of the Upper Lias. Good specimens show beautiful ribbed ornamentation. Below is an identical specimen but from Whitby on the Yorkshire coast. We know that the rocks in both places (Seatown/Eype and Whitby) must be the same age because this ammonite…
Ammonite
A small specimen of the zonal ammonite Leioceras opalinum. It gives its name to the Opalinum Zone, the first zone of the Middle Jurassic.
Bivalve oyster shell
Devil’s Toe Nail This is a ‘classic’ bivalve shell from the Blue Lias around Lyme Regis. This is not, as folklore might have it, the gnarled toe nail from some long lost monster! It is a humble and common oyster that sat on the sea bed with the larger heavier shell acting as an anchor.…
Bivalve oyster shell
Good enough to eat? These oysters are similar to the common Gryphaea oysters, but with a much flatter shell. They can grow in great profusion and litter the beaches below Sandsfoot Castle when storms have scoured away the sand along the Portland Harbour Shore. You can tell they are oysters by the finely layered shell.…