Notidanodon Posted July 23 Share Posted July 23 I managed to get 2024 done before 23 but I was waiting around for things to be prepped, I should have know that would take me too long haha. I need to get on the organisational side of things but hunting is so fun! It’s hard to remember quite what happened but I’ll do my best! Yaverland was nice to start with I spent a while crawling along the gravel bars and found two dinosaur teeth and quite a bit of bone! Photos of the finds at the end. The shaley part (I think of the vectis formation) was visible again with a few nice shark teeth. The cliffs of Wessex fm are rarely productive but this year I did find a nice bit of bone i had a look up the cliff at vectis fm limestones which are very hard but contain nice hybodont spines. the mineral formations on this are weird, it was lagoonal but I think it’s calcite forming in cracks? then the weather took a turn for the worst as I was splitting up limestone looking for cross-sections. and I sprinted back to the car with a very heavy bag! The next day was whitecliff bay. I explained the geology in my 2024 post if you want to have a look. Great views as always looking at the earnley formation in the cliff and the wittering fm?? Just past the lignite layers back to the earnley fm on the foreshore. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notidanodon Posted July 23 Author Share Posted July 23 And the chalk around the corner is always worth checking! the cliffs are always foreboding. sponges are very prevalent in the upper (white) chalk present here i was mostly looking in the scree here some sponges and corals and echinoids weird flint then I went back after filling up on echinoids and a rare belemnite. i visited the London clay on the way back and found these septarian nodules. The shells weren’t worth collecting but interesting to look at. one more earnley fm tooth and the view on the way up 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikrogeophagus Posted July 24 Share Posted July 24 Very nice report! Obviously the shark teeth were my favorite. 4 hours ago, Notidanodon said: Is this a Hexanchiform tooth? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notidanodon Posted July 24 Author Share Posted July 24 44 minutes ago, Mikrogeophagus said: Very nice report! Obviously the shark teeth were my favorite. Is this a Hexanchiform tooth? Thanks! Yea they’re my favourite too haha. In my dreams it would be but it’s just a physogaleus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patelinho7 Posted July 24 Share Posted July 24 Great scenery! Thanks for all the photos. Where are the dino teeth? Did I miss them I’d love to see them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notidanodon Posted July 24 Author Share Posted July 24 21 minutes ago, patelinho7 said: Great scenery! Thanks for all the photos. Where are the dino teeth? Did I miss them I’d love to see them. Just posting the trip reports now, I’ll post all the finds at the end when I refind them moving house hasn’t helped my organisational system 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patelinho7 Posted July 24 Share Posted July 24 Ah, got it. Sorry, didn’t mean to pressure you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notidanodon Posted July 24 Author Share Posted July 24 1 hour ago, patelinho7 said: Ah, got it. Sorry, didn’t mean to pressure you No worries at all, if anything i need some pressure to get on it or they will just sit there gathering dust 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notidanodon Posted July 25 Author Share Posted July 25 Now onto one of my best hunts ever at whale chine, I met up with a friend and then climbed down the sketchy cliff, which would be an issue later. Erosion is so fast that any attempts to make a proper path is gone by the winter so it’s literally just a goat track down the cliff. With some ropes from the top as it would be too steep otherwise. but anyway we went down and along the cliff, hitting large nodules that looked ammonite shaped in the search for large ammonites. These are a metre in each direction so splitting them took a lot of work! Dissapointingly they didn’t contain much other than one small australiceras. But walking along the beach we found one lying there in the same! A Tropaeum, here it is before and after prep This material is part of the greensand so there’s a lot of brachiopods around walking further along we got to the lower lobster beds which were well exposed, I collected around 20 specimens! Some were better than others but I’ll post them soon. Then we walked past the crackers nodules, impossible to split the large ones but with soft centres. Then I walked around on the slumped cliff and stumbled across an incredibly rare upper lobster bed lobster, much larger than the lower ones and better preserved in a proper nodule. My mate who lives on the island has never found one of these! This is where I found it Walking back I found a small crackers nodule which I decided to smack, after about 10 minutes do break a 15 cm nodule. I did find a nice calcite desahayites unusually in the hard part of the nodule. It was too small to have a soft interior then I had to return to my 30kg ammonite which I had placed on the cliff to avoid carrying it, lumping this up the cliff took ages! My back still hasn’t recovered haha. And finally a nice blue mineral vanadanite or something from the crioceras material. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor Mud Posted July 25 Share Posted July 25 That lobster!!! Thanks for sharing. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coco Posted July 26 Share Posted July 26 Very nice lobster and ammonite déroulée ! What is blue mineral vanadinite ? Vanadinite is an always brown/orange mineral. Coco ---------------------- OUTIL POUR MESURER VOS FOSSILES : ici Pareidolia : here Ma bibliothèque PDF 1 (Poissons et sélaciens récents & fossiles) : ici Ma bibliothèque PDF 2 (Animaux vivants - sans poissons ni sélaciens) : ici Mâchoires sélaciennes récentes : ici Hétérodontiques et sélaciens : ici Oeufs sélaciens récents : ici Otolithes de poissons récents ! ici Un Greg... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notidanodon Posted July 26 Author Share Posted July 26 5 hours ago, Coco said: Very nice lobster and ammonite déroulée ! What is blue mineral vanadinite ? Vanadinite is an always brown/orange mineral. Coco Hi coco sorry it’s vivianite 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Notidanodon Posted July 26 Author Share Posted July 26 Last trip! To st Catherine’s lighthouse with glauconitic chalk on the hunt for some good teeth! Sadly only got one partial one but better than nothing! lots of ammonites in the rocks a partial heteromorph more ammos the view from the top 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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