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Tom Sharpe

@tomsharperocks

Geologist, expedition travel guide, author of The Fossil Woman A Life of Mary Anning, Dovecote Press, Nov 2020 (hb), July 2021. (pb). Patron Lyme Regis Museum.

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#MolluscMonday: Ammonites (now Microderoceras) birchi, as figured and first described by James Sowerby in 1821 in 'Mineral Conchology'. The specimen, from the early #Jurassic of #LymeRegis, was then in the collection of Col.Thomas Birch who had probably bought it from #MaryAnning

#MolluscMonday: Ammonites (now Microderoceras) birchi, as figured and first described by James Sowerby in 1821 in 'Mineral Conchology'. The specimen, from the early #Jurassic of #LymeRegis, was then in the collection of Col.Thomas Birch who had probably bought it from #MaryAnning