Information About Fossils- details to add in to folded format

Tribolites 
  • Distant relatives of crabs- lived in the sea
  • Some swarm, while others walked on the sea floor 
  • 251 million years a go- they disappeared 
  • They have three main parts- head, boy and tail 
Ammonites 
  • related to squids and octopuses 
  • they died out the same time as the dinosaurs 
  • their shell is a flat spiral 
  • made up of chambers like little rooms in the shell- connected by a tube 
  • the animal only lived in one of the these chambers and used the other space to float in the sea 
  • some can by tiny and some can be as big as a human 
Brachiopods 
  • lived in the sea, attached to a hard surface 
  • they are very common fossils and over 66 million years old 

List of Fossils Mary Anning found 
  • Proteosaurus- Ichthyosaurus 
  • Plesiosaurus 
  • Belemnites- fossilised squid- like creature. Mary Anning collected the inks so they could be macerated and used to make drawings of other Lyme Regis fossils 
  • coprolites 
  • Pterodatylus- "flying dragon" 
  • Squaloraja- fossil of a fish- an intermediary between sharks and rays 
"Mary had become as much a curiosity as the fossils, she was so adept at locating and extracting" - Oxford 
People would accompany her on her fossil hunting expeditions 
1838- Mary awarded annuity 
1846- became the first honorary member of the new Dorset County Museum in Dorchester. 



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