Dinosaurland Fossil Museum

Dinosaurland Fossil Museum
Location of Dinosaurland Fossil Museum in Dorset
Location	Lyme Regis, Dorset
Coordinates	50°43′33″N 2°56′02″W
Built	1750-1755
Architect	John Whitty
Listed Building – Grade I
Official name: Congregational Church
Designated	31 January 1974[1]
Reference no.	404523

View of Coombe Street with the Dinosaurland building in the distance.

Ichthyosaurus fossil exhibit

Exhibit of Segnosaurus nest with dinosaur eggs

Dinosaurland Fossil Museum (aka Dinosaurland) is a privately owned fossil museum in Lyme Regis, on the Jurassic Coast in Dorset, England.^[2][3][4] The museum is in a historic Grade I listed former congregational church building.

The museum is owned and run by Steve Davies, a former chief palaeontologist for BP.^[5][6] It contains a collection of local marine fossils from the Jurassic period. The museum organizes guided fossil hunting walks.^[7] There is a museum shop that sells fossils and minerals.^[4][8]

As well as local Jurassic fossils, there are dinosaurs from China.^[9] There are also modern shells and skeletons on display. The museum has a small collection of dinosaur fossils on show (such as a large dinosaur coprolite, a Megalosaurus skeleton and a Chinese dinosaur, of unknown genus).

Congregational Church

The museum is on Coombe Street in a 250-year-old Grade I listed building that used to be a congregational church.^[1] The church was built between 1750 and 1755 by John Whitty. It was where Mary Anning (1799–1847), an early fossil hunter, was baptised and later attended for worship.^[10]

Related pages

• Lyme Regis Museum

References

1. "Congregational Church, Coombe Street, Lyme Regis, West Dorset, Dorset". Images of England. English Heritage. Archived from the original on 2016-09-18. Retrieved 2019-02-22.
2. David Else and Fionn Davenport, Great Britain, Lonely Planet, 2009. Page 309. ISBN 978-1-74104-491-1.
3. Oliver Berry and Belinda Dixon, Devon, Cornwall & Southwest England, Lonely Planet, 2008. Page 161. ISBN 978-1-74104-873-5.
4. Thomas A. Hose, Geotourism: Appreciating the deep time of landscapes. In Marina Novelli (editor), Niche tourism: contemporary issues, trends and cases, Butterworth-Heinemann, 2005. ISBN 978-0-7506-6133-1.
5. Fine example of a crinoid!^{[permanent dead link]}, Midweek Herald, 14 November 2007.
6. "Briefing: Dinosaur upgrade in Lyme". Geology Today. 14 (5): 167–168. 1998. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2451.1998.014005162.x. S2CID 247710088.
7. Dinosaurland — Lyme Regis Archived 2012-07-13 at Archive.today, VisitBritain, UK.
8. Dinosaurland Fossil Shop Archived 2012-03-06 at the Wayback Machine, Lyme Regis, Dorset, UK.
9. Dinosaurland Fossil Museum in Dorset Archived 2010-04-24 at the Wayback Machine, Visitor World Archived 2010-05-27 at the Wayback Machine, UK.
10. Lyme Regis Archived 2010-06-20 at the Wayback Machine, Panoromic Earth Archived 2010-07-22 at the Wayback Machine.

Other websites

• Dinosaurland Fossil Museum website