#jurassicfossils

[rosaschellart]

(save share and comment are appreciated) Love spending time at creeks to find fossils, like shells in the beach.🐚🌊 My favorite place is the creek close to my hometown. Huge ammounts of our normal earth here is jura slate. (hardened mud from the jurassic period, when europe was ocean) I remember a field trip in pre-school to the next forrest, where a lot of other kids found belemnites (the bullet shaped fossils) everywhere in the creek. Nobody really knew what they where, so everyone assumed its dinosaur teeth! Funny thing is, baby-me didn't find even one single 'dinosaur tooth'. And I still remember so vividly that I wanted to find one too so bad! This was always somewhere in the back of my mind. For more than 20 years... And two years ago, I visited my favorite creek and suddenly found my first belemnite ever! ヾ(￣0￣ )ノ After this day, everytime I go to this creek I find one. Sometimes even 5 or 10 in one day! Its amazing that as soon as I found the first one by chance, the memory came back, and my eyes know exactly where and how to find them. I even found some really uncommon fossils!!!! 4 half-OPALIZED belemnites (see slides) and a tiny but completely intact GOLDEN ammonite! (ps the first two photos are actually not my main creek I'm always going to, but a beautiful place in slovenia. I figured that you'll see a lot of photos of my little home creek anyway. I'm even working on a painting of it! To see my art, check out @rosamschellart ) . . . . #longcaption #longstory #belemnite #fossil #shelling #fossilcreek #fossiladdicted #findingfossils #jurassicfossils #seashells🐚 #opalized #seashells #fossilgirl #fossiladdict #opalizedfossil #dinosaurtooth #fossils #juraslate #jurafossilien #belemnitefossil #ammonite #ammonitefossil #naturefinds #rarenature #beachfinds #rarefindswarehouse #rarefossil (hier: Jurassic Adventures) https://www.instagram.com/p/CL6tVsYDmp4/?igshid=1uae4qs5epwhj

[ofgraveconcern]

21st May 1799, birth of fossil collector, fossil dealer, and early palaeontologist Mary Anning, Collecting fossils from the Jurassic marine fossil beds of Lyme Regis in Dorset, England, Anning become renowned and respected for important discoveries upon prehistoric life, and the history of the Earth. Her discoveries included the first ichthyosaur skeleton correctly identified; the first two complete plesiosaur skeletons found; and the first pterosaur skeleton located outside Germany. Coming from a poor background, as well as being a woman, meant that despite her natural skills in geology and paleontology, she was excluded from the scientific community of 19th century Britain, nevertheless she was well known in geological circles in Britain, Europe, and America, and was consulted on issues of anatomy as well as about collecting fossils. Anning may also be the inspiration for the 1908 tongue twister, "She sells seashells on the seashore". In 2010, one hundred and sixty-three years after her death, the British Royal Society included Anning in a list of the ten British women who have most influenced the history of science. Follow @ofgrave.concern for more tales from history. #jurrasic #maryanning #maryanningrocks #fossilhunter #fossilhunters #dinosaurfossil #dinosaurfossils #19thcentury #womeninhistory #womenshistorymonth #historywomen #historicalwomen #ammonite #ammonitemovie #paleontology #paleontologymemes #paleontologymuseum #paleontologyrocks #dinosaurhunter #geologyrocks #lymeregis #lymeregisbeach #dorsetuk #19thcenturyhistory #shesellsseashells #shesellsseashellsontheseashore #jurassicfossils #historyofscience #historicaltales #historicalstories https://www.instagram.com/p/CPJIrjNHamY/?utm_medium=tumblr