Half and half
As always with posts about fossils, I must stress I am very much an amateur.
Even after the storms, this winter's finds from several visits to Ringstead Bay have been limited to fossil oysters and ammonite traces. Nevertheless, the above find was very pleasing. What you are looking at here is two halves of an ammonite. Imagine folding the two halves together and you'll see that they fit. Just think that as I split the hard shale, they were exposed to the light of day for the first time in some 150 million years! By the way, 'hard shale' is a bit of a misnomer as it breaks very easily and once washed out of the cliff, as this piece had been, it quickly disintegrate as tides come and and is lost to the ocean.
bithbox # 214
"Detectorists"
Half and half
As always with posts about fossils, I must stress I am very much an amateur.
Even after the storms, this winter's finds from several visits to Ringstead Bay have been limited to fossil oysters and ammonite traces. Nevertheless, the above find was very pleasing. What you are looking at here is two halves of an ammonite. Imagine folding the two halves together and you'll see that they fit. Just think that as I split the hard shale, they were exposed to the light of day for the first time in some 150 million years! By the way, 'hard shale' is a bit of a misnomer as it breaks very easily and once washed out of the cliff, as this piece had been, it quickly disintegrate as tides come and and is lost to the ocean.
bithbox # 214
"Detectorists"