A Palaeo-oddity

One misty dawn, Charmouth's intrepid fossil hunter, Eamonn Knight, stumbled upon the skull of his first ichthyosaur. Alas, his wrong-footed fervour towards this Jurassic jewel brought no less than a fatal tumble. The irony was lost on the saurian palaeontologist who delighted in espying Eamonn's petrified cranium some millennia hence.