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The Lyme Regis entry looks great!
Azara Started conversation Nov 24, 2001
Hi, Frogbit!
this is just to let you know that I've seen the Mary anning entry and like it a lot. But I need to think about it a bit more before commenting in Peer Review, and I'm on the run at the moment. I'll be around late tonight or tomorrow to comment - this is just to let you know that I haven't forgotten (and that I appreciate your cproduction of such a great entry in response to my request about scientific sights!)
Talk to you later,
Azara 
The Lyme Regis entry looks great!
Henry Posted Nov 28, 2001
Hi Azara - thanks for comments - as you can see, the piece is undergoing rapid change. Sorry I haven't given you anything for the project (which is, by the way, an excellent idea and looking great), and I'm afraid it'll have to hang on for a couple of days - I'm off to Gloucester on a Jurassic nautilus hunt. Speak soon, Frogbit.
The Lyme Regis entry looks great!
Azara Posted Nov 28, 2001
Have a great time hunting the Nautilus!
There'll be plenty of time to pick out something for the collaborative entry, which at my rate of working will be a long time brewing yet!
Azara
The Lyme Regis entry looks great!
Azara Posted Nov 28, 2001
Have a great time hunting the Nautilus!
There'll be plenty of time to pick out something for the collaborative entry, which at my rate of working will be a long time brewing yet!
Azara
The Lyme Regis entry looks great!
Henry Posted Dec 3, 2001
Got a couple of good nautiloids - a few ammonites (5) with a combined weight of 150-200 pounds. Some bivalves with soft tissue preservation (mucle structure intact) which is pretty rare. This is all from the lower midlle Jurassic - about 160 mya. Some fish teeth turned up, as did a quarryman selling a big ammonite - £20 - a bargain. My favourite was a gastrolith - a plum sized crop-stone from an crocodilian. It' sitting on my desk as I type (as is a model of an ophthalmosaur, to celebrate the ichthyosaur piece going through).
Now almost back in writing mode - see you soon,
Frogbit.
The Lyme Regis entry looks great!
Azara Posted Dec 3, 2001
That sounds like a great haul! It must take a good eye to spot the gastroliths - I assume it's their very smoothness that gives them away? There's something quite fascinating to me about having the *real thing* that you can never get from models and copies, no matter how good. I was thinking about that in relation to cave art - I've never been to Lascaux II, but I did visit Niaux in the Pyrenees, and seeing the *actual* cave paintings was a real thrill, even if they're not as dramatic as the Lascaux ones.
Azara
The Lyme Regis entry looks great!
Henry Posted Jan 8, 2002
Hello stranger.
I'm working on the Lyme piece, honest.
"It must take a good eye to spot the gastroliths - I assume it's their very smoothness that gives them away?"
Perceptive as ever, Azara. Yes, it was the smoothness, and also because it was 'out of context' ie, there was no other stone of the same composition around it.
If you go to Google (which I know you do
), and try their new 'image' catagory, their is a nice range of gastrolith photos on the net.
Speak soon,
Frogbit.
ps - Happy New Year.
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