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  1. charlie3425

    Plesiosaur propodial Cap Blanc-Nez

    Today I bought this little gem at the 'Nautilus' fossil fair in Ghent (Belgium). It was sold to me as (and probably will be) a humerus/femur of a juvenile Plesiosaur found at Cap Blanc-Nez. Is this id correct? Is anything more specific to be told about it? Lenght is about 10cm, it's 2.5cm wide. Thanx for any words!
  2. Hi TFF, Last week the GF and I went for the holy trio (geological wise ), the turonian, cenomanian and albian. It's simply amazing that in a relatively short stretch of cliffs you can find all three. Driving our way there it seemed like the UK also had some decent weather that day as it was quite visible. We first hit the turonian. On the way there you can find santonian(?) deposits which produce some nice flint urchins. I'm usually looking for big ammonites like lewesiceras or mammites. Only two small examples were found that we did not take home. In-situ weathered lewesiceras. For the good eyes amongst us, an i-situ mammites nodosoides. Unfortunately a very flat compressed example At some point a nautilus 'belly' poked out, fairly uncommon and a pleasant find. I believe it's eutrephoceras. Not much later I made a little squeak. We don't find these often here. Meanwhile the GF was very pleased finding another nautilus. Albian deposits drift off towards cenomanian and turonian plates. The next day we were welcomed with a nice rainbow. You see why they call it the 'white nose / blanc-nez'. These visible layers are cenomanian. I hoped for the gault layers (which would be on the other side of the picture) but only some ex situ albian layers were exposed. These are full of pyrite and little ammonites (anahoplites). Sometimes bigger pyrite specimens can be found like this partial beudanticeras. To my surprise something else was just waiting to be picked up. Pretty rare and well sought after. Surrounded by pyrite and ammonites. On the way back we managed to pick up a little acanthoceras. And a final picture
  3. Hello everyone, and welcome back to another trip report! Last week, me and my family went to France once again, but this time to northern France, near Cap Blanc Nez. Cap Blanc Nez is a well-known fossil-hunting site for its ammonites and other fossils. It is located quite near the coast of England, and if the weather's clear you can see the cliffs of Dover very clearly. Day 1: it's a start The first fossil trip was rather disappointing. We walked down the stairway to the beach and headed directly to Grand Blanc Nez, the main landmark in the area. We started searching close to the cliffs, between the large chalk boulders. After some time had passed, we found something which, at first glance, looked like a rock covered in plants. After examining the rock for a while, we came to the conclusion that these "plants" must be suture lines from an ammonite. The rock was way too heavy to be carried off the beach, so I took some pictures to closely examine the ammonite later. Here it is: Lewesiceras sp. It slowly became dark, and we decided to return to our cottage, after what wasn't a particularly satisfying fossil hunt. But as we were walking back towards the car, a surprise was waiting for us: some clay layers (which later turned out to be from the cenomanian stage) were exposed while we were busy searching for fossils amongst the rocks. On top of the clay layers were some small pyrite ammonites, of multiple genera. These finds were certainly promising, but it quickly became too dark to find anything, so we went back to our cottage. After I had scoured the internet and a useful conversation with Euhoplites on instagram (you should definitely check him out) , it seemed like we went to the wrong side of the beach. Like I said in the beginning of the trip report, we went to Grand Blanc Nez, which is on the righthand side when you walk down to the beach. Euhoplites told me that this isn’t the best location for fossils at Cap Blanc Nez. You should actually go left, towards Petit Blanc Nez. Euhoplites sp. This pyrite ammonite was found on top of the cenomanian clay layers. You can find day 2 in the comments!
  4. This Weekend was very busy,saturday afternoon the tide was low and allow a good hunt on the Cap blanc nez with a very grey weather ,heavy rain sometimes a a Mantelliceras picteti from the Cenomanian was here And a Turrilites costatus Big pieces of Calcite time to see the Gault clay Anice pyrite Hoplite from the Albian on the sand small samples to ID inside the clay time to go back on the way :) Today morning with the sun but high tide And before living
  5. A few weeks ago I went back to Cap Blanc-Nez in France. The variety of fossils that can be found there (aptian,albian,cenomanian,turonian) is the reason I keep coming back. Just 30 mins on the beach together with a french buddy and already a tripmaker. A freshly eroded morrowites, barely touched by the sea. While further excavating it seems a second ammonite is below. Highlighted because it's not that easy to see. Turns out to be a small Lewesiceras, incomplete anyway. Back to the good stuff. The split went like a dream, can't get any better. Beautiful sutures too. To make the post not too long with images, i'll post a mid-prep picture as a comment. As a lot of collectors do, I hid the ammonite and went looking further. I knew a there still was a big ammonite laying around as I found one just a few weeks prior, unable to take it with me or start excavating. Was too big and chalky anyway, what a luxury problem to have. Classic picture with shoe for scale. My friend and I couldn't resist hammering around a bit, just for fun. Another friend got it out last week. Seeing the result I might have made a mistake leaving it :P Picture also in comments. On our way back we saw @Manticocerasman, seems we missed a beautiful Ptychodus. Congratz to him and the wife Afterwards we did a bit of cenomanian hunting. My friend wanted to make up for my finds and found a beautiful Mariella (rather rare with all whorls) while I enjoyed an epic sunset and managed to pick up a tooth.
  6. Manticocerasman

    Turonian jewel in the chalk

    During the first part of our summer holiday we spent a few days at Cap-Blanc-Nez. The tides and weather weren’t optimal for fossil hunting and lots of tourism at the location didn’t help much either, so our finds were relatively limited. The last day however we found 1 spectacular piece. A little brown spot was reflecting light on one of the loose boulders on the beach. It was a ptychodus tooh peeking out. They are very rare there and this one allone was worth the trip. After the prep at home it only got better, the tooth was complete and of considerable size. Enjoy the pictures :
  7. A week ago my friend Diego (@fossilesdecapblancnez) sent me a message that he'd found a big lewesiceras peramplum (lower turonian, grand blanc nez formation). This is the ammonite in situ. He decided to leave it alone and come back with me a week later to extract it and carry it of the beach since it's huge. So that makes it yesterday. He arrived a bit early after high tide but luckily the ammonite was still there as the site is frequently collected. As you can see the pebbles moved quite a lot in a weeks time. It's good and bad, lots of erosion but also lots of boulders with potential fossils buried. I arrived a bit later. The extraction itself went quite well. The matrix wasn't too hard and it split well of the fossil. A massive 77cm (+-30.3 inches) which is relatively big for the species. It should be a female since they grew biggest. I don't know how but it seems he and I always manage to photograph our shoes/boots too Luckily she's not the fattest/thickest making the weight acceptable for my old handtruck. A good half kilometer on the beach and a steep climb of the beach and she was secured
  8. I've enjoyed many trip reports that @Manticocerasman made about the chalk cliffs at Cap Blanc-Nez that I decided to make one myself. A big tide, warm sunny weather and the summer season approaching... I only like one of those 3, a big tide The goal was to visit the albian gault layers if they were visible, but they were covered with sand. I've collected some of cenomanian fauna already thus I decided to visit the turonian boulders. Hunting in the turonian is not easy, it can be hours before you see something and everything has odd shapes that could be something. The scenery makes up for it. However, when you see something it's usually good. And that day was no different. A nice mammites nodosoides. Upon extraction it turned out way bigger (39cm / 15-ish inches) and better than expected. A good 2 kilometers to the car.. and she's safe Currently the prep is looking really promising. Went back on the beach and spotted a sweet acanthoceras rhotomagense, cenomanian in age. At some points the lower layers of the cliffs are cenomanian in age, thus making a mix of finds possible. It's unfortunate I did not take an in situ picture (the boulder itself is actually in the picture) , but you can clearly see what the sea had worn down of the ammonite which I could spot. On the way back some more lovely scenery. I wonder if the germans did collect fossils during the time they were stationed in their bunkers looking towards England. If you've enjoyed this post, please leave some feedback. Writing something strucured with pictures is surprisingly difficult
  9. I find the time to "open" this chalk ball from the Cap blanc nez northern France,i was almost certain to broke the sample,that's happen and i have to glued it,but i found a little track of shell when i dig it a little a very nice brachiopod inside perfectly "fresh"! nice surprise!
  10. Hi everyone, Last week after getting lots of recommendations from people I spend a couple of days at Cap Blanc Nez in France to look for some fossils. And while it wasn't to most bountyfull hunt I did have a lot of fun and I was very pleased with the little finds that I managed to do. We had very nice weather, it was sunny and the temperature was just perfect for fossil hunting, and the cliffs and beach (and landscape overall) were absolutely stunning. The fossils in Cap Blanc Nez date back to the Cretaceous and there are deposits from the Turonian, Cenomanian & Albian. I spent a lot of time searching in the clay deposits which lay on the beach. Besides fossils we also found some washed up marine life: A large jellyfish (Rhizostoma sp.) A washed up Harbor Porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) A washed up Small-spotted catshark (Scyliorhinus canicula) We also payed a little visit to the beach at Wissant although we didn't went there to search for fossils but to visit an old shipwreck
  11. It has been to long since we posted a fieldtrip, but the curent worldwide situation did hamper our fossil hunts. A few days before Chritmas the situation in France changed and we could again go to the beaches in the North for fossil hunts. The 24th we went to the "Grand Blanc Nez" to prospect the turonian boulders en hopfully score a few big ammonites. This time we were als prepared for big finds: we took a handcart with us, because the previous time we had trouble to bring a couple of ammonites back to the car due to their weight ( 2 km on foot with more than 30 kg of ammonites is hell ). The weather conditions of the past few days had cleared up a lot of boulders and it didn't take long for the first ammonites to appear. Natalie found the first specimen, a Lewesiceras peramplum from over 30cm in diameter and a while later a loose Mammites nodosoides. A while later It was my turn and I found an large Mammites nodosoides from around 30cm lying between the rocks. a few extra ammonites were found, but of lesser quality. Halfway our day Natalie found a chalk boulder with a few bone fragments peeking out. not sure of what it could be we took it back home to see what the preparation would give. while heading back Natalie found the last ammonite of that day, this time a Fagesia catinus wich was a nice addition since we diddent had this genus in our collection yet. The ammonites where prepped over the following couple of days, but at first sight the bones didn't seem prommising so they were left asside for a while. So earlier this week we picked it back up and tried to prep it further. tou our surprise one of the fragments turned uot to be a complete marine reptile vert Natalie was overjoyed with this fossil. Just waiting for us on the beach : The prepped specimens: Mammites nodosoides ( 30 cm ) Lewesiceras peramplum ( 34cm ) Fagesia catinus ( 27 cm ) The marine reptile vert ( probably plesiosauria )
  12. From the album: Cephalopods Worldwide

    16cm. Middle Cenomanian Late Cretaceous Cap Blanc Nez, Normandy, France Thanks very much to Kevin (Manticocerasman)
  13. Manticocerasman

    Fish & fossils

    Although we didnt realy plan for a fossil field trip, we did go to Boulogne sur mer yesterday to visit the aquarium "Nausica". and since the chalk cliffs of cap blanc nez are only 20min away from there we did make a stop for a couple of hours at the beach at the cliffs. I can recomend a visit to the aquarium to enyone who visit's the are, it is definitely worth a visit, although the entrence fee is quite expensive. On our visit at the beach we were only equiped with a small hammer, but lots of boulders shore were already broken through the waves and still deliverd quite a lot of fossils. I also picked up a pice of chalk with a bone fragment in it. this was something I haven't found there before, we are still prepping this to see what we can make out of it: Visit at the aqurium: the vieuw at the top of the "Grand Blanc Nez", You can see the UK from there Vieuw on the coastline: ammonite in the boulders: the finds: the mystery bone:
  14. Manticocerasman

    Bone ID from the cenomanian chalk of France.

    I'm used to find ammonites and invertebrates, but this time I took home piece of chalk from the beach with a bone inside. I have totaly no Idea of what kind of bone this is or even from what kind of creature. I am still prepping the piece, but those are already the 1st few pictures. hopefully someone got more info on this: Cenomanian from cap-blanc-nez France ( marine chalk deposits)
  15. Manticocerasman

    Ammonite hunt in Northern France

    We are back from a very windy fieldtrip to Cap blanc Nez in France. The wind covered a lot of the rocks with sand and sea foam ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_foam ) which made fossil hunting rather difficult. We were helped by a local collector in the morning who guided us through the Turonian deposits of this site where we rarely colect, here we got 2 big ammonites. One of them was a Mamites nodosoides, this species as been on my wishlist for a while, so I am very happy with it In the afternoon we prospected the Cenomanian side. her we found the usual Mantelliceras and Scloenbachia ammonites. The prospecting site: ( we did see the coast of the UK on the other side of the channel ) Some of the ammonites we found: The Mammites: pictures of the prepped specimens will follow during the next week.
  16. Manticocerasman

    Albian ammonites

    last weekend on our field trip where we usually search for cenomanian ammonites we also found a few phosphate ammonites on the beach that were washed out on the beach from the lower albian layers. most of them were only fragments or encrusted with phosphate, but I managed to prep few of them with very good results: the specimen on the bottom of the picture: Anahoplites planus Hoplites sp. Euhoplites ochetonus
  17. I just spend the evening cleaning and preping some of the cephalopods I found last weekend. those are all from the cenomanian at the French coast. A couple of nautiloids ( Eutrephoceras sp. ) A couple of turrelites and a Manteliceras sp.
  18. This Saturday Natalie and I hit the road towards the jurassic and cretaceous clifs in the North of France. This is a 2h trip from where we live, so we left early to make most of the use of the favorible tides on those beaches. the 1st stop were the Titonian deposits near Wimereux, not the most easy place to find fossils, but with patience some nice fossils can be found. Th big problem although on this trip was the wind... this made it relatively hard to search for fossils. we did manage to find a couple of jurassic ammonites, one of them was more than 30cm in diameter but needs a lot of cleaning. In the afternoon we went to the beaches at the cretaceous clifs near Calais. here again the wind gave us a hard time blowing a lot of sand in the air. Although the harsh conditions we did find a few decent cenomanian ammonites, including a nice heteromorph turrilites sp. pictures of the Titonian deposits and finds: pics of the ammonites of the cretaceous site:
  19. this evening part 2 of the preppwork on the ammonites we found this weekend: Next up is a Schloenbachia varians of the Cenomanian of Cap blanc Nez in France: work in progres: the end result: the 2nd one of the evening was a Mantelliceras saxbii found by Natalie from the same location: The specimen is a little compressed and I thought that the center wasn't preserved, I was wrong. Work in progres: the end result: both specimens:
  20. Together with my father I went to Cap Blanc Nez in France last sunday. The weather was good, no wind and a beautiful clear sky. Ideal to go to Cap Blanc Nez. It's about an hour drive form where I live. The goal was to find my first ammonite since I have never found one before. I'm still a total noob at hunting fossils. Thanks to some tips from Mantoccerasman i finally found my first ammonites. And I'm very proud of it. Wonderful feeling to find those traces of life from million years ago. Wednesday I tried the preparation of the fossils I've found. It was the first time ever that I did this but I'm pretty proud of the result Most of the ammonites are probably Mantelliceras sp. A friend of mine did the determination of she oyster-like shell, it's an inoceramide sp.
  21. This Christmas I spent 4 days of fossil hunting with my girlfriend on the French coast. The planning was 2 days in Normandy at the "Vaches Noires" cliffs in villers sur mer and one day at Cap blanc Nez near Calais ( we finally extended the trip with one extra day near Boulogne sur mer ) Day 1: The first day we got at Villers sur mer after a 4h drive from home. Once at the cliffs we had to wait a little while since the tide wasn't low enough, but the beginning of the cliffs were already accessible. The fossil fauna was very variable, we found echinoid spines, echinoids, gastropods, bivalves ( lots of oysters like rastellum ) , ammonites ( mostly fragments ), brachiopods... Our best find of the day was a complete Cardioceras sp. Day 2 started with a visit to the local museum. in the afternoon we got back to the beach. Natalie found 2 ammonites, one of them was a really nice Euaspidoceras. On day 3 we went back North to Boulogne sur mer, here we looked through late Jurassic deposits. Day 4: The last day of our field trip, we visited the late cretaceous of "Cap Blanc Nez"
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