Wolfgang Lucht on Nostr: I didn't spend much time looking for fossils this time, but a quick look at a ...

I didn't spend much time looking for fossils this time, but a quick look at a promising spot on the beach brought these: three remnants of the skeletal part of a belemnite, a squid-like animal of the Cretaceous seas of the area some 70 million years ago. They're very common. And a perfect little chalk sphere that is Porosphaera globularis, a calcareous sponge also from the Cretaceous - also common, though not familiar to most. And a beautiful fragment of a glazed tile, anthropogenic sea debris.