Fossils out of the blue

Ever come across a fossil out of the blue? Please post some here!

As featured previously on the forum. This Echinoid came to my attention when sitting about a fire which was circled with large flints. Big old pop and this jumped out in front of me. Was most surprised!

Last year my house was broken in to.... the would be thieves threw a rock through my window. The rock they chose was from dorset and had been sitting outside for some years, it did not only smash the window but split in two and this was lying on my living room carpet when I got home. Best day ever!






- if you are interested the thieves were spooked and didnt take anything but really thats besides the point.

Spleain wrote:Last year my house was broken in to.... the would be thieves threw a rock through my window. The rock they chose was from dorset and had been sitting outside for some years, it did not only smash the window but split in two and this was lying on my living room carpet when I got home. Best day ever!






- if you are interested the thieves were spooked and didnt take anything but really thats besides the point.

wow that is really different normaly thieves would take something not help you find something new. but as long as they didnt take any thing alls good

I fell down a hill on the Wales trip and landed on a complete trilobite -Complete ones are relatively rare here.. we all got 3 or 4 out of 30-40 finds each, most of them are post-cephala exuviae.. (Pic to come in the relevant thread obviously..)

macrocephale wrote:I fell down a hill on the Wales trip and landed on a complete trilobite -Complete ones are relatively rare here.. we all got 3 or 4 out of 30-40 finds each, most of them are post-cephala exuviae.. (Pic to come in the relevant thread obviously..)

hehe, would love to see it

Two weeks ago I went to a local garden centre to have a look at their Photinia standards but they were far too expensive... I did however find a large stone holding down the edge of a tarpaulin. Without buying anything I went to the cashier with the stone and asked if I could have it... they paused and then said yes... best day ever!

- it was windy the next day




- I dont know anything about this stone but it is definitely not local and it is a limestone or very dense sandstone with many shells (cannot id weather bivalves or brachies) and loads of worm casts. If you recognise this type of stone and fauna and can help ID please let me know, im sure it is from the UK but no idea where from.

Bring it down in June!

macrocephale wrote:Bring it down in June!

will do

i have a few types of that rock they normaly do contain loads of shells but i have no idea what its called sorry

Most limestone formations, and some marine sandstones have some form of shell bed in.. It's unlikely you'd be able to get a good grip on the age of it without identifying the shells I'm afraid, and bivalves and brachiopods can both be right twits to ID..