#flint fossil

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Some of the mussel shells imprints in chert shards found within the last year.

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The one is larger to be seen now with its rings, first noticed just the Centre like my fingernail, but the once shell has an extensions.

The smaller is fucked shame, broken apart just in the middle of it.

To be honest, I had forgotten to upload this two pics of an new chert imprints of two mussel shells.

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Was out to the rocky pile spot, and have found the next echinoid chert core of an Galerites.

With two new inprints or former sponges. Have now recently visited that place two times, not before this year and managed to find 5 flint cores of sea urchins, of two species again. Most times it is just one.

It’s not the saison ready for harvesting around that fields, and with the raining the last week no proper watering activity, no roads so I’m bothering nobody’s work while searching. And I’m also not been annoyed by anyone.

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Aulaxinia sponges my beloved flint finds. So rarely to find intact nowdays. The most times there just fragmented into pieces. 🪨 🥒

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Found this chalcedony piece of an sponge or an coral like an geode,

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Found not the great or typical fossils like in the past trips.

Just many flint chert rock with some imprints. The weathered echinoid core, an small chert mussel imprint cracked up, and several imprints of the spines of echinoderm.

With several damaged fragments of echinoids seen, so worse that I didn’t had picked up.

And was working on an blue chert shards placed like an altar.

But the fossil finds were not so great to display afterwards. 🤷‍♂️😅

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My largest piece of an mussel shell imprint so far. On an rounder gray chert shard.

I was the entire afternoon until now off to, fossil hunting with search for banded chert today.

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Here was once an echinoid 🥲

The other side of the flint rock is typically an grey smooth surface. The imprint shows the tiny good still visible dots of the spines of the outer shell pattern.