On a sunny and windy August day in 2016, I visited a coastal town called Lyme Regis in the county Dorset, England. This area is part of w...

This image of a brachiopod identified as  Rhactorhynchia inconstans (J. Sowerby). Other genus names used to describe this specimen are To...

This fossil ammonite is an  Asteroceras obtusum .  These small creatures existed in the Lias of the Jurassic Period. It was found on the Cha...

These fossil ammonites are a  Promicroceras sp.  found in the Black Ven Marls Member.  These small creatures existed in the Sinemurian ag...

Thanks to reader Shamalama of Pennsylvania, I have obtained my very own Lyme Regis ammonite so now I am happy as clam at high tide (or w...