Hoxo Posted October 8, 2017 Share Posted October 8, 2017 Please could someone id this fossil for me found at Whitby UK. The piece is approx 5x5x4 cm Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crann Posted October 8, 2017 Share Posted October 8, 2017 Looks like worm burrows to me, somebody else will chip in I'm sure. Cheers. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TqB Posted October 8, 2017 Share Posted October 8, 2017 Hi and welcome to the forum! It's not a fossil I'm afraid but a series of U-shaped modern worm burrows, Polydora ciliata or similar. You often find them along fine cracks and joints in intertidal rock exposures, frequently damaging actual fossils. 4 Tarquin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoxo Posted October 8, 2017 Author Share Posted October 8, 2017 Ahh thank you for replying so quickly. Fab forum!! Will carry on fossil hunting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abyssunder Posted October 8, 2017 Share Posted October 8, 2017 I agree with Alan and Tarquin. They would be polychaete worm borigs, trace fossils which might be close to Caulostrepsis or Maeandropolydora ichnogenus. excerpt from here excerpt from here 1 " 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...
TqB Posted October 9, 2017 Share Posted October 9, 2017 These are definitely modern though, very common on the coast - they're often found with live worms in them if you break the rock... Tarquin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoxo Posted October 9, 2017 Author Share Posted October 9, 2017 That's amazing. The fact that a worm can make burrows into a hard rock. Fascinating. Will go break it open and see if there are live worms in there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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