![]() Lyme Regis is one of the best places in the UK to find ammonites and there are many wonderful examples in the museum collections. ![]() This drawing is modeled after one of Rogers (Ludwigias) Ancolioceras ammonites. Most of my drawing is cartoony but I thought Id give this a try. Some ammonites were tiny, others were as big as a person. The amazing artwork by some of our members inspired me to buy a box of graphite pencils and try my hand at some fossil drawing. The ammonite lived in the front part of the shell and used the other spaces to hold gas and air which it used to float up and down in the sea and propel itself. Their shell is a spiral shape made up of chambers, the sections grow over time as the Ammonite gets bigger. There soft body and tentacles are rarely preserved, but there iconic shell are often preserved in the rock and found on the beaches around Lyme Regis. AmmonitesĪmmonites are related to squids, octopuses and nautilus still living in seas around the world today. It’s large eye socket suggests it had good eyesight and it was an apex predator, feeding on fish, plesiosaurs and other ichthyosaurs. They are excellent index fossils, and it is often possible to link the rock layer in which they are found to specific geologic time periods. It’s long slender body is described as fish-like and its’ powerful tail, almost the same length as the body, made it a fast cruising swimmer. CC0 / Public Domain ammonite shell nautilus fossil drawing black. Ammonites are an group of marine animals of the subclass Ammonoidea in the class Cephalopoda. It lived in the Early Jurassic period, ranging between 200 and 175 million years ago in the sea that covered Lyme Regis and as far afield as the coast of Chile. It is the same type of Ichthyosaur, as the one discovered by Mary Anning and her brother, 200 hundred years earlier in 1811.Ĭalled Temnodontosaurus, meaning in Greek “cutting-tooth lizard”, (temno, meaning “to cut”, odont meaning “tooth” and sauros meaning “lizard”), it is on display with part of the spine, rib cage and front fins. This drawing of a single ammonite, showing polished cross section (top) and rough outer shell, is on off-white, acid-free paper, framed in solid light oak. This very large Ichthyosaur was discovered within metres of Lyme Regis Museum by local collector and fossil hunter Mike Harrison in 2011. ![]() My original design was rainbow coloured but this tim. My wonderfully bright and cheerful interpretation in glass of an ammonite. Museum at Home > Fossils/Ammonite The Lyme Bay Ichthyosaur (Temnodontosaurus platydon) This is a stained glass suncatcher, entirely handmade by me, using the Tiffany copper foil technique. ![]()
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