[News] Giant ammonite revealed in Dorset, UK.

[Phil]

Wow, this is a stunning specimen:

Rocky road out of stone age

 

[CapnNemo]

ah the Jurassic Coast, what secrets do you still keep from us?

Amazing!

 

[Michael Blue]

COOL!!

 

[Architeuthoceras]

Very Nice!!

 

[OB]

Magdalena, or the ammonite?

 

[Clem]

Magdalena, or the ammonite?

She was featured in Women of Malacology's 2005 annual beach-gear edition.

 

[Michael Blue]

Magdalena, or the ammonite?

LOL! (both)

She was featured in Women of Malacology's 2005 annual beach-gear edition.

Got pics?

 

[Steve O'Shea]

You are a naughty lot! Magdalena is my sister!

 

[Michael Blue]

You are a naughty lot! Magdalena is my sister!

You're polish? I never thought of O'Shea as a polish name, lol!

"I have never seen anything like it before," said Polish-born care worker Magdalana Klag.

 

[OB]

You are a naughty lot! Magdalena is my sister!

Umm.... when she told you "I am sorry, it is because you are like a brother to me", that had to be seen in a totally different context

Maggy is simply too polite to say that Neil Diamond T-shirts just don't do it for her...

OK, enough of this! We're a ceph site

 

[Phil]

Magdalena O'Shea? There can't be many of those to the pound.

Leaving aside the admittedly quite diverting Ms. Klag, what do we make of the ammonite? Is this really Titanites? I thought initially it must be Parapuzosia as it's the largest chalk ammonite I can think of. Even so, this must be pushing for the record if it is one of those.

Unless, of course, Ms. Klag is about 18 inches tall.

 

[Phil]

Oh dear, answering my own question immediately.

Yes, it probably is Titanites giganteus or Titanites anguiformis; here are more examples from the same region:

http://www.soton.ac.uk/~bam2/col-index/fossi-lindex/ammonites/pages/Titanites.htm

and:

Fossils of the Portland Group - by Ian West

Oh dear, if I'd re-read the article properly I would have noted that the thing was found in limestone, not chalk. What makes it worse is that I used to visit Christchurch as I had a good friend who lived there - I should have remembered. Doh!

 

[cuttlegirl]

Oh dear, answering my own question immediately.

Yes, it probably is Titanites giganteus or Titanites anguiformis; here are more examples from the same region:

http://www.soton.ac.uk/~bam2/col-index/fossi-lindex/ammonites/pages/Titanites.htm

and:

Fossils of the Portland Group - by Ian West

Oh dear, if I'd re-read the article properly I would have noted that the thing was found in limestone, not chalk. What makes it worse is that I used to visit Christchurch as I had a good friend who lived there - I should have remembered. Doh!

You were just distracted by the lovely Magdalana .

 

[Michael Blue]

Google provided no more pics of her, for those interested, lol!

 

[Architeuthoceras]

The ammonite, or Magdalena?