Isle of Wight: Enormous fossil ammonite dug out from boulder
The mollusc is set to be cleaned up and put on display at the island's purpose-built dinosaur museum.
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The mollusc is set to be cleaned up and put on display at the island's purpose-built dinosaur museum.
Jack Wonfor, 23, recovered the epicheloniceras ammonite weighing in at 24 stone, an enormous shelled creature as big as a car wheel, on the Isle of Wight
An Epicheloniceras ammonite was recovered from a fallen block from the Lower Greensand on the Isle of Wight's southwest coast.
Fossil hunter Jack Wonfor, 22, recovered the huge ammonite in an area on the Isle of Wight known as 'Dinosaur Island'.
The Isle of Wight fossil weighed almost 18 stone and dates back some 115 million years.