Short chalky trip

[Euhoplites]

Hi TFF,

 

The other week I went for a quick trip to the beloved chalk at Cap Blanc-Nez in France.
I heard that the gault clay (albian) was exposed, since that's my main interest I had to go and see.

 

'Sadly' it was layer P6 (late albian) which does not provide as much ammonites as earlier layers.
In my experience this layer provides quite a lot of fish remains like teeth and small vertebra.
Picked up a small lamniform shark tooth.

 

Besides a lot of bivalves (inoceramus) and gasteropods (gyrodes gaultina) there was nothing but that tooth I took home.
Next time I'll make some in-situ photo's because there's tons and tons of phosphate fossils. Probably very similiar to the gault in Folkestone.

 

On my way to the turonian there was a micraster waiting to be freed.

 

Spotted some sutures that fooled me. I thought they went inwards to the matrix but it turned out just to be a chunk as can be seen (sutures going outwards). Rookie mistake hehe. You can also see where the living chamber starts. That's usually a weak spot to be careful for when extracting, in this case there's already a good crack forming.

From not to hot, beautiful mammites nodosoides (turonian) just waiting for someone 

 

Edited October 26, 2022 by Euhoplites

[Notidanodon]

Nice tooth  

[Neanderthal Shaman]

Looks like a cool site