An abundance of Jurassic ammonites – seen on a single walk along the shore at Monmouth Beach in Dorset, England, a few years back. There were large ones and small ones; embedded in beach boulders and forming rock pavements; in limestone and shale; some crystallised and others just impressions; some with other fossils preserved alongside or even inside the chambers.
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There are so many – I might not have liked swimming in ancient Dorset.
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I don’t think I would be as worried about the ammonites as I would be about the ichthyosaurs chasing after them!
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One of my favorite walks when we lived in Devon was from Seaton to Lyme. Thanks for posting all these and reminding me.
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Thank you, Juliet. I never tire of visiting that area. It is beautiful and interesting. So much to see and leaarn.
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Wow! Never come across anything like that.
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Lyme Regis is extraordinary like that. The pavement of ammonites is famous. David Attenborough appears in one of his TV series, sitting on the beach with these ammonites. I don’t know if they are still there or still accessible after all the coastal erosion and land falls of earlier this year. Last time I visited there were barriers and warning signs up because of the danger.
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Tragic if they were lost. Spectacular examples.
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