Before-After Ravenscar Rarity

[@annetalbot9151]

Lovely colours on the shell ❤

[@dinoskool]

It's another lovely prep by Mark Smith to bring out the best of it!

[@gottacrackemall4713]

In my opinion your top of the tree at the minute for finds on the Yorkshire coast, what a find and very rare, love the possible predation to go with that ammonite it makes it even more interesting. I'll look into this species more when I get time. I'd like to say I can't wait to find one but that probably wil l never happen 😢 great find and identification mate was well worth the wait 👍⚒️😃

[@dinoskool]

Very kind for saying it. I know there are a lot more incredible finds people have, sadly most of us will never see their collections. I'm out again today hoping to add to the list of rare things, as well as dropping off/picking up a few more rarities for prep 😅

[@gottacrackemall4713]

@dinoskool I never ends 😃👍 i can't wait to see what your latest finds are, how do email you to send some pictures of some of my collection, take care mate.

[@dinoskool]

A few more goodies today, and one that might be super rare again but may not have a middle. We await prep to know for sure! My fossil email is [e-mail] if you want to drop me any pics for me to admire.

[@gottacrackemall4713]

@@dinoskool brace yourself 😅🦖⚒️ cheers Andrew 👍

[@JurassicFossils-jj1mf]

Beauty 😊

[@mosmarb]

Nice! I have 75 genuses of ammonite represented in my collection but that's one I hadn't even heard of, let alone own. A quick Google shows most of them are coming out of France.

[@dinoskool]

There's a fair few genera from Ravenscar that I'd never heard of until I found one and needed an ID. The uppermost layers there are eroded across the rest of the Yorkshire coast and so we don't see the ammonites elsewhere on our coast. Neil Trudgill is writing a book up on the upper lias of Yorkshire and suggests there might be 4 species of this genus in Yorkshire but tough to know with preservation not being great in many of them.

[@mosmarb]

@@dinoskool thanks for the extra info, I'll look up the book once it's released.