Preparing Mary the ichthyosaur at Charmouth Fossils

Fossil of Mary the ichthyosaur. Is it ichthyosaur, temnodontosaurus platyodeon ?
Report no. 2
A bit of a delay since the last one as the summer holidays have been a busy period in the shop.

GOOD NEWS - Tony has found some more parts of the paddles following further cliff erosion.

	Teeth now exposed on the third section of jaw.
Tony with an air chisel carefully taking off surplus rock from the fourth section of jaw which holds part of the eye socket.
	Eye socket exposed on jaw joint section. The strange shape of the eye socket gave Tony and Pete some concern that Mary was in fact a Temnodontosaurus platyodeon however they feel at the moment that a distortion could have occurred when the skull was crushed under tremendous pressure.
Progress still going well.