Jurassic Beach, Lyme Regis

The beach is located in the Jurassic western English county of Dorset, near Lyme Regis village. Of course, there are no dinosaurs, but the coastal rocks contain many fossils of ancient shellfish ammonites

Jewelers use for the manufacture of ammonite jewelry, but here they are garbage that should be removed from the beach. Numerous tourists an excellent job with the role of cleaners, going through these fossil mollusks as souvenirs.

As a result of frequent landslides occur more and more remains of the ancient inhabitants of the planet.

Jewelers use for the manufacture of ammonite jewelry, but here they are garbage that should be removed from the beach. Numerous tourists an excellent job with the role of cleaners, going through these fossil mollusks as souvenirs.

Some fossils, tourists can not take because of their weight with the stone a few hundred pounds.

Estimated age of the fossils is over 185 million years

Tourists searching for fossils along the coast