Dolly b Posted August 2, 2017 Share Posted August 2, 2017 I found these fossils on Whitstable beach when the tide was out, what are they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted August 2, 2017 Share Posted August 2, 2017 Welcome to TFF! Most look like bone fragments, but I do see a couple of teeth and some unsure about things also. Can You post pictures of the items individually so We can get a better look? 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...
Miocene_Mason Posted August 2, 2017 Share Posted August 2, 2017 As ynot said, we need individual pictures, preferably labeled with numbers, so you know which ones we a referring to. I can see a (shark?) centrum a herbivorous mammal tooth, a few bones (probably mammal as well) and a sponge. There is more there, this is just first glance. 1 “...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved.” ~ Charles Darwin Happy hunting, Mason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Limestone Posted August 2, 2017 Share Posted August 2, 2017 The tooth in the middle looks bovidae, but as mentioned before, individual close up pictures will help the forum identify your fossils better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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abyssunder Posted August 3, 2017 Share Posted August 3, 2017 For 10&11, my guess would be tube worm borings (the little ones) and bivalve borings (the larger ones) in hard substrate, like the ones presented here . " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnBrewer Posted August 4, 2017 Share Posted August 4, 2017 1 and 2 are bison sp. metacarpal bones I think. They're often dredged up from The North Sea. You'll need to desalinate them to preserve them. @Harry Pristis will im sure give you the species. John Map of UK fossil sites Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolly b Posted August 4, 2017 Author Share Posted August 4, 2017 Thanks for the info, how do I desalinate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnBrewer Posted August 5, 2017 Share Posted August 5, 2017 21 hours ago, Dolly b said: Thanks for the info, how do I desalinate? Firstly I made a mistake with the number two as I now realise that it's number 1 flipped over! Post the desalination question in the 'fossil preparation' part of the forum. One person son I read left a bone that needed desalination in a toilet cistern! Seems a cool way to deal with it but the bone would need to be in good and solid rather than flakey. John Map of UK fossil sites Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolly b Posted August 5, 2017 Author Share Posted August 5, 2017 Thank you for the advice, bones are in the cistern, we hopefully will not forget they are there! My husband found this fossil below, is it a hive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miocene_Mason Posted August 5, 2017 Share Posted August 5, 2017 37 minutes ago, Dolly b said: Thank you for the advice, bones are in the cistern, we hopefully will not forget they are there! My husband found this fossil below, is it a hive? This is a colonial coral, other may be able to tell what type. “...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved.” ~ Charles Darwin Happy hunting, Mason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 Those are barnacles on oyster shell. " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolly b Posted August 6, 2017 Author Share Posted August 6, 2017 Yes it is an oyster shell that has attached itself to the back of the fossil. We only realised after the photo was posted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 I think your oyster once was attached to a barnacle colony, and the upper part of the valve has also barnacles on the surface. Here is an example from my collection with a modern oyster that was strongly attached to barnacles with its lower valve. " We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way. " Thomas Mann My Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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