Ichthyosaur Vertebrae Fossil - FSE322 ✔100% Genuine - UK Seller

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Specimen: Vertebrae

Species:  Ichthyosaur [Large Marine Reptile]

Age: Jurassic 

Location: Weymouth, Dorset, UK

Size:   78 x 81 x 27mm (3.07 x 3.19 x 1.06 inches)

Ichthyosaurs (meaning ' fish lizard' ) were large marine reptiles that first appeared 250 million years ago, with at least one species surviving until round 90 million years ago where they became extinct for as yet unclear reasons! It is believed they evolved from a group of terrestrial reptiles during the early Triassic period, initially looking rather like lizards with fins. The first complete fossil specimen was found by, the now famously known, Mary Anning in 1811 in Lyme Regis, UK.

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The word Fossil used to be defined as ‘something dug up’. Now-a-days it generally means ‘The remains or trace evidence of prehistoric life’. The study of fossils is called palaeontology; someone who collects and studies them is called a palaeontologists. Fossils can be as tiny as a grain of pollen or a seed for e.g. or as huge as a limb bone from a giant dinosaur. For animal or plant remains to have become ‘fossilised ‘, they must go through a certain process that preserves them for up to millions of years after they have died. Usually it is only the hard parts of plants and animals that survive this long process.

How Fossils Formed