SPESCIES: Hildoceras bifrons
LOCATION: Foreshore, east of Charmouth, or between Seatown and Eype, in the Junction Bed
AGE: Lower Jurassic, 180 million years old
This ammonite is from the Junction Bed which is known as a ‘condensed sequence’ because the sediments formed slowly and at times were even eroded away. As a result, the fossils tend to be quite poorly-preserved but they remain identifiable. This ammonite is Hildoceras bifrons, the classic ammonite known from Whitby, and named after St Hilda.