portsmouth uk fossil blog

i've been picking up fossils along the same seashore in the southern UK, for many years now, and have been meaning to start cataloguing them for about the same length of time. Now i have finally started, i find i have hundreds to sort! I have very limited knowledge but a keen interest. i do however have a interest and some knowledge in model making, moulding and casting, and its here i find most of my unanswered questions and seeming enigmas in the casts that i find on the shore.

Sunday, 26 April 2015

plant, sponge, fossil? skin?

interesting imprint, unsure what it is

a similar imprint in a smaller specimen, could this be fish skin? or plant like?

Bryzoan square cell imprint

this is the only one i've ever found of this type

found this while looking up Bryozoans for another post, looks pretty close to me, many thanks to El Pelon for pointing me in the right direction

echinoid cell imprints

note the differences with a regular echinoid find which has 2 rows of cells interspersed with 5 rows of 2 dots, this is cells all around with no dots or holes visible anywhere