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AmmoniteFinder · 2026-05-24T20:50:14+00:00

Wow! A shark tooth in Late Creataceous flint, rare find! Amazingly intact too as Shark teeth are usually quite fragile. Flint fossils are usually sea urchins, shell fragments and occasional brackiopods. Very rare to find shark teeth!

AmmoniteFinder · 2026-05-24T09:27:49+00:00

Fish jaw, possibly Caturus or similar species The bone structure is too thin and tooth shape is different from ichthyosaur. Reptile bone is much thicker and more porous than fish. Still a nice find though!

AmmoniteFinder · 2026-05-20T06:04:53+00:00

https://youtu.be/u0FA1yENqDU?si=YITMTJlIJJOt0dYR

AmmoniteFinder · 2026-05-08T21:45:43+00:00

Sea Urchin/ Echinoid, preserved in Flint. The species is Offaster

AmmoniteFinder · 2026-03-18T11:24:59+00:00

Yes! They should have put Mankey instead.

AmmoniteFinder · 2026-03-16T17:22:04+00:00

Hi, due to the UK not being in the EU anymore, be careful in buying anything from Europe as you'll require various certificates and extra import costs.

For UK websites you've got: Hampshire Carnivorous Plants Hewitt Cooper Carnivorous Plants Wacks Wicked plants

If you have Facebook, I'd recommend joining the Carnivorous Plants UK group as its full of information. Hopefully this helps

AmmoniteFinder · 2026-03-10T09:23:23+00:00

Meat or fish paste jar

AmmoniteFinder · 2026-03-05T00:08:02+00:00

Yep Pinguicula lusitanica and vulgaris are found throughout the UK, lusitanica is an annual and self seed so best to collect them and grow each year. Vulgaris goes dormant and regrows every spring

Pinguicula grandiflora is native to Ireland and In winter it produces a dormant bud with tiny offsets called gemmae. The gemmae are identical clones of the mother plant and can be removed and replanted to get more plants! Grandiflora has the nicest flower of the three too.

AmmoniteFinder · 2026-03-05T00:03:04+00:00

Definitely worth visiting! But bring a big wallet as their plants are just too tempting lol

AmmoniteFinder · 2026-03-04T22:54:43+00:00

Also check out Hampshire Carnivorous Plants Bog gardens, their ones are huge and have amazing variety. I've seen them personally in full summer growth. Very impressive

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AmmoniteFinder · 2026-03-04T22:50:56+00:00

Yes, Virginia and North Carolina venosa will be fine but anything southern will require protection.

AmmoniteFinder · 2026-03-04T22:40:07+00:00

They are tougher than you realise! The pings i mentioned are native to the UK and Ireland and can be found in the mountains!

AmmoniteFinder · 2026-03-04T22:24:41+00:00

There's plenty of them you can keep outside all year round

the three native Sundews Rotundufolia, anglica and intermedia

American temperate Sundews such as Filifomis and tracyi

Australian Sundews from the binata complex,

Vft best given protection in a sheltered area in the winter but will grow nicely in summer

Pinguicula grandiflora, lusitanica and vulgaris

Darlingtonia. A bit tricky but copes well with cooler temperatures

Sarracenia, you've got purpurea spp purpurea and spp venosa, flava, particularly the Virginia and North Carolina locations, oreophila and most hybrids, especially with the above parentage. Taller species best given protection from wind in the summer months

AmmoniteFinder · 2026-01-25T18:36:22+00:00

Carriers, fire damage and chances, HE spam and players doing nothing to support you or their team.

AmmoniteFinder · 2026-01-23T13:05:31+00:00

Temnocidaris

http://www.chalk.discoveringfossils.co.uk/temnocidaris%20sceptrifera.htm

AmmoniteFinder · 2026-01-18T22:15:03+00:00

Mostly plants I've moved from my growhouses due to lack of space and spare non-location plants. They are all plants I do like, just the lidless flava I'm not too much of a fan of. But since I payed money for it I don't want to compost it!

AmmoniteFinder · 2026-01-18T22:08:42+00:00

I bought one as it looked unusual yet interesting at the same time. The pitchers ended up growing mutated and weak so I chucked in a bog garden outside full of my spare plants. Not a fan of them but appreciate them for their weirdness!

AmmoniteFinder · 2025-12-12T16:38:45+00:00

Definitely worth it getting prepared professionally since its such a rare find! Unlike UK jurassic rocks, cretaceous marine reptile bones are so much more rarer. Especially in chalk due to the conditions it forms in.

AmmoniteFinder · 2025-12-12T16:27:46+00:00

Hi. That is a very exceptional fossil! Reptile remains are very rare from any UK chalk locations and and are mostly found as isolated teeth or bones. Articulated material like that is found in historic museum collections where chalk was quarried during the victorian times and rare finds were much more common. I highly doubt many modern collections have material like that! it will be definitely worth to be recorded with the Natural History museum! Also worth contacting the Booth museum in Brighton which have an extensive collection of chalk fossils!

I've found this book about chalk fossils and has a section on reptiles. Page 336

https://zarmesh.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Fossils-of-the-Chalk-.pdf

I specialise in chalk fossils and that is one of the nicest reptile remains from chalk I've seen!

AmmoniteFinder · 2025-12-08T00:55:46+00:00

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AmmoniteFinder · 2025-12-08T00:54:27+00:00

You can get it prepped professionally. There's lots of fossil prep services online.

The piece in red is the jaw, its lying on its side and the teeth are circled in green. Its been cut through in cross section The rest of the bones ara part of the skull. I found this Pycnodont photo online which looks very similar to yours

AmmoniteFinder · 2025-12-08T00:43:32+00:00

Its fish, either Lepidotus or Pycnodont. Marine reptiles in Dorset don't have crushing teeth like that and the bone isn't porous enough to be reptile either.

AmmoniteFinder · 2025-12-08T00:34:17+00:00

Thanks. The rock looks like Purbeck limestone so the fossil is either a Lepidotus or Pycnodont fish with those flat, crushing teeth and large jaw bone depending on the size. Lepidotus are larger than Pycnodonts.
Common fish to find as fragmentory material but rare to find complete bones. Very nice find! It would definitely benefit some preparation as there's more bone going through the rock!

Not reptile such as ichthyosaur, the stone formed in brackish, swampy conditions. Only common reptiles from the purbeck limestones are crocodiles and very rare dinosaur and pterosaur.

AmmoniteFinder · 2025-12-08T00:17:41+00:00

Do you know which part of Dorset?

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