Birds

Odentopteryx toliapica (Harrison=Walker) An incomplete bird skull found by Mick Wall between Hens Brook and Paddies Point. May 2003

 

Dasornis londinensis, a large bony toothed bird skull found on the foreshore, wave cut clay platform far out on the low tide mark by Hartmut Schieck on a days field trip to Sheppey.

Probably the most complete specimen of this species ever found. The holotype in the NHM is very fragmentary and poorly preserved, a common condition for bird fossils from the London clay. Because of the hollow nature of the bones, they rarely preserve complete.

 

Odentopteryx toliapica (Harrison=Walker), four views

Odentopteryx toliapica side view showing eye orbit

Unidentified bony toothed bird lower mandible

Pseudontornis longidentata (Harrison=Walker) fragment of lower mandible

Two specimens of Pseudontornis longidentata? worn fragments of lower mandible

Probably a procellariiform bird skull, possibly a Petrel type of seabird

Notice how the bones have been lined up

Bones lined up, could be stomach contents of a large carnivor