Kim Posted August 1, 2017 Share Posted August 1, 2017 (edited) Oh my I don't know where to start really! My 10 year old daughter is interested in collecting fossils. Today we have been to Filey beach on the East Coast, UK. She found numerous fossils. I think I have managed to help her identify them as ammonite, brachiopod and gryphaea. One however has me stumped and google isn't helping, maybe bone or wood? (to be honest I'm not sure it even is a fossil!) she is proud of her finds and is desperate to know what it is, hence me being here asking for help! Many thanks in advance Edited August 1, 2017 by Kim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted August 1, 2017 Share Posted August 1, 2017 Welcome to TFF! to You and Your Daughter! If You can provide pictures from other angles and a scale it will help with an id. Tony Darwin said: " Man sprang from monkeys." Will Rogers said: " Some of them didn't spring far enough." My Fossil collection - My Mineral collection My favorite thread on TFF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TqB Posted August 1, 2017 Share Posted August 1, 2017 It's a piece of a large belemnite rostrum (part of the internal shell of an extinct squid-like mollusc). The circle in the first photo is the cross section of the alveolus/phragmocone. 1 Tarquin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kim Posted August 1, 2017 Author Share Posted August 1, 2017 Oh wow thank you! So it is a fossil after all! She will be pleased. She found her first ammonite on the beach aged 3 and has looked for them ever since. Thanks again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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