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If it weren't for this head, it would be 25 inches long.
The bigger problem was that the plesiosaurus has a seamless closed back, so the layers are on the underside. But the Mamenchisaurus has the layers on top, meaning the head comes out upside-down! The solution: cheating!
I'm not proud of it, but I had to. It's a huge design flaw, but I think I did a good enough job of folding it anyway.
Today we went for a wander along to the Warren in Folkestone to dig up a few dinosaurs !
The coastline between Folkestone and Dover exposes rocks of Cretaceous age (142-65 million years old), including two rock exposures of particular importance. The series of cliff sections at the western end of the site, with some 50m of Folkestone Beds (Lower Greensand) and Gault, represents the most important single locality for studying these rocks in England.
The Gault Clay exposures in East Wear Bay yield beautifully preserved fossils, including ammonites, bivalves and crabs and have also produced the fossilised remains of a number of types of marine reptiles including turtles, ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurus and pliosaurs.
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Site: Brno - Hády quarry (Czech republic)
Age: Jurassic, upper oxfordian
Lenght: 10mm
Unevenly striated, slightly curved, cone-shaped tooth with
circular cross-section
Typical for marine reptile teeth fossils, most likely Plesiosauria sp., possibly ichthyosaurus or crocodylomorpha too.
EDIT: October 15., 2017
Indentified by Daniel Madzia as Plesiosaurus (most probably).