#sponge fossil

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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 new finds from the today trip to the mentioned stone road & one location with piles.

They are sponges aulaxinia sulficera - the in lengt two again and the round stone with the mold on it. I have already an specimen like this in dark flint.

Then the in half round open chert/ flint cut sponge with the inner pattern.

The first like this with an clear pattern of some struckture shown!!

And an absolutly tiny echinoid core, if you zoom in you can see the little reminicent pattern.

At first without cleaning, i was thinking it was an fungus on it, but afterwards the pattern is in the flint, likely calcite.

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The haul of small fossils like an typical beachcore trip finds, but I was not near any beach or sea. I’m recently vary happy now.

All of this little fossils like the skeleton coral parts, mussels, belemnite nautiloide and crinoid traces found in my direct neighborhood & at my workplace area near the parking lot with the gravel rose beds.

I’m absolutely not near any sea. All new mussel & coral parts eagerly to find with luck within my work time outside from the last days.

After weeks of hopefully thinking, to find some coral traces myself on this area are now reality.

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Die Fossiliensuche geht weiter !

Found some fossilised echinoderm with an handful of round amount of Aulaxinia sulcifera sponge in flint. Flint & chert are the dominant sedimented rocks here with fossil finds.

Again he and his long dead dry urchins !!

One round is fully complete with no cracks.

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Here to seen the other finds. Sponge & Flint.

New pieces of rounded nature polished imprints from prehistoric sponges out of flint. I didn‘t know the genus of this sort of distant spongy.

Those are intact, i saw a lot fractured or shards from it or without the mold.

Then new two ovale shaped, grind polished from glacial force millenials + ago.

Wall stones called here, i find a lot now on near open fields and sandy area in the province but they appear a lot of fields, sandy terrain and washed out near beaches or any river or earth pits or gravel spots.

Also common in the pebble bolder pieles or forest paths.

Sadly the most seen are cut in half, broken shards of it or near ovale, the most are like this ovale, size from tiny to an egg and above,

or a lot in the shape of unique beans or kidneys with one or two tiny holes on or in them. Each have an smooth fractured texture on it like an pattern, each of them shares it. Some have an eye mold in grey on it, like the bubble white underside from the common MC Donalds buns on the underside. That is weird.

On sandy terrain or fields great little finds from ground to pick up & collect, decoration or for the garden. I enjoy finding them with others.

I find a lot of them and are here common have an box full of them - vs the sponges to compare

This stones are not fossils, pure rocks with mostly none features of fossil traces like imprint molds or bryozoan. If than also rare cases.

They are not so polished round like riverbed pebbels of other sedimentary stones.

The varity goes from grey to dark brown to black color, are from the iron in the stone.

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Found these on the 26.05.2024

My vacation is now on the end, so i can only on the coming weekends out, perhaps rarely in between the week going out for more search after fossils

Some sponges flint molds, an echinoid, piece of an nice, yellow banded chert and new rounded black Wallstones of flint one with an open cut.

The found echinoid, sea urchin ancestor are in an yellow dull silica chalcedon alike, near complete piece with an on top layer marking.

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New Fossil Friday for all!

To beginn, i put now the tiny snail / nautiloide fragments in this jar.

These are some of the recently new finds of, petriefied sponge fossils from the Aulaxinia sulcifera in flint.

Also the round Kieselschwamm.

This is an small sponge. I have recently and on previous rock search , parts of plenty of those seen around, but not picked up. Crap . <.<

Many of the round ones with holes or with stone chalk core in them are also sponge fossils in flint.

The mantle is chalk or gray black flint in variations.

We calls them Klappersteine sometimes.

If an intact on have an lose piece in the core of the inner mold, with the limestone or flint mantle, then when shaking it it may have an clapper click sound.

Often, brocken ones are in half or have those hole in them.

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So finds from today, i went on the search from the midday on. Quick posting for you all.

The finds are some sponges in flint again, with an great big like an Aulaxinia, and the tiny echinod clearly to seen in the dark stone matrix embedded. Smoth texture, i was flipping it up.

The sponges have some good pattern on the front parts. I have seen many so often in fractured in pieces or only a piece of it. So each in good condition is an positive relief, right?

Sadly with the so heavy fractured other.