#fossils 2024

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More variety of echinoids from different ovale forms, in flint colors on the rock plates.

They looks like dry crusty crumble cookies.

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The new wave of echinodem. Some in ovale, brown with little remicent of their distant shell pattern. Found great ones in good condition.

The two orange broken parts in orange flint.

Some have clear pattern, others are chunky.

And the other three in gray, with outstanding intact one in darker gray.

All are good example to shown of the varity to finding and for id.

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Like the pic before last evening yesterday, found this flat top piece of an brown echinodem fossil top, with flat cut grey open underside. Without many other stones here.

Then on the route back the half piece end of an new aulaxinia sulficera sponge with this wave pattern, was on the back walk from the stone road.

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The find from yesterday’s trip on my local paths from fields into the muddy forest tracks.

Found this brachiopod mussel in black flint rock, also with the previous shown piece of echinoid and two of the crinoid pieces.

Not knowing the genus or alike of this mussel, not alike like other from before, therefore an part of the rock is missing, fractured of the mostly right side seen from the shell rims going further, so the brachiopod shell was more in their length.

I’m doing it again if some frost coming back on the end of the year. Planning to to it on new year’s morning or the day after.

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Found this very nice, medium size echinoid on the sand road tracks directly near the field.

Saw it and in that moment I thought only wtf, here so near of those tracks? In front of me now ???? Colored brown like it’s sandy terrain.

Intact, full condition without cracks no fissures no damaged open parts with unknown flint core color. Has the size of an tangerine. 🍊

All of the outer shell pattern is intact, you can seen all sides, the dots, armored parts and star shape, near round like an tangerine but one side is crushed from long time ago, since the fossil formed from the minerals in the once not filled exoskeleton. Brown colored fint like the sand.

I‘am very very glad and happy about this stunning nice find. An Incredible Echinoid.

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Fossil hunting visit 2

I got a lot of few new fossils for todays post. Found another location with lot of stones & rubble. With the ok from the owner of his pile/ surrounding field area to search.

It was an fun time to search for rocks this time. Mostly broken upper and top fragments of flint urchins, nice finds to compare with others.

These are quiet big chunks of echinoid.

Two of them, after washing in my hand are mostly intact ones.

It‘s a shame all years thats pieces like this got lost and destroyed from the shipping for fundamental use or industrial constructions or street underground.

Oh there is no blood, it is the wet red marking of the inner flint core.

20.03.2024 post reupload

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It has some beachcore vibes within the sand.

Sunny weather, good for some pics taken outside with echinoids ~ Echinocorys.

With two placed Galerites echinoids circular.

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Not good in finding flint fossils on today’s afternoon walk after raining, also the sun setting is now near after 16:00 PM now again raining for the evening.

The broken underside of an echinoid badly damaged, one other piece - if it’s not an hollowed punctured chert, and one little sponge.

Not an good trip, I’am really down with all event on this day now.