thelivingdead531 Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 Please give me good news. My son and I went fossil hunting at West Runton beach today and came away with what look like belenmites. Apparently I’m not great at fossil hunting in new locations on my own since these were the only things I came away with (and a mud clump of shells that need some serious stabilizing), and West Runton is supposedly full of all kinds of fossils! Anyway, can someone confirm that these are, in fact, belenmites so I don’t feel completely defeated again (or tell me they aren’t so I can hang my head in shame). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daves64 Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 MMm... petrified calamari... sounds crunchy. 1 Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Amateur Paleontologist Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 Definitely belemnites. If that can help, they look very similar to Belemnella fragments that I find in the Danish Chalk. 3 Opalised fossils are the best: a wonderful mix between paleontology and mineralogy! Q. Where do dinosaurs study? A. At Khaan Academy!... My ResearchGate profile Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fruitbat Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 And now you can march around with your head held HIGH! -Joe 2 Illigitimati non carborundum Fruitbat's PDF Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 woohoo! 1 Everything is generated through your own will power ~ Ray Bradbury Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelivingdead531 Posted August 2, 2018 Author Share Posted August 2, 2018 Thank you all! My horrible sunburn was not for nothing then! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ynot Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 Yep - belemnites. Not bad. 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...
Walt Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 3 minutes ago, thelivingdead531 said: Thank you all! My horrible sunburn was not for nothing then! Sunburn in England?? Must have only been partly cloudy 2 Everything is generated through your own will power ~ Ray Bradbury Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelivingdead531 Posted August 2, 2018 Author Share Posted August 2, 2018 2 minutes ago, Walt said: Sunburn in England?? Must have only been partly cloudy Normally, I would agree with that statement, but our two month heatwave and drought was just broken last week, and it has been getting hotter this week again. I never thought I would wish for rain in England lol. Also, I’m as pale as possibly can be, so I would still burn if it was overcast. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fruitbat Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 Heatwave? Hmmm...let's see...according to the good 'ol BBC, it was 35.1C in Surrey on 26 July...and between 26.2 and 29.4C in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. 35.1C translates to about 95.2oF and the temperatures in Northern Ireland,Scotland and Wales ranged between 79.2 and 84.9oF. Heck...around HERE this time of year we would call that a COOL snap! It's already 95oF (35C) here at 3:25 P.M. today with the prospect of it reaching 100oF (37.8C) here again by Monday. Just a typical Texas summer! -Joe Illigitimati non carborundum Fruitbat's PDF Library Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelivingdead531 Posted August 2, 2018 Author Share Posted August 2, 2018 25 minutes ago, Fruitbat said: Heatwave? Hmmm...let's see...according to the good 'ol BBC, it was 35.1C in Surrey on 26 July...and between 26.2 and 29.4C in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. 35.1C translates to about 95.2oF and the temperatures in Northern Ireland,Scotland and Wales ranged between 79.2 and 84.9oF. Heck...around HERE this time of year we would call that a COOL snap! It's already 95oF (35C) here at 3:25 P.M. today with the prospect of it reaching 100oF (37.8C) here again by Monday. Just a typical Texas summer! -Joe It’s definitely cooler here than in a quite a few states, I won’t argue that, but at least you guys have AC to escape into. We don’t, we suffer lol. That being said, I am glad we don’t have 100F temperatures here, you can keep that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daves64 Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 We had triple digit temps here in Washington State the previous 3 days. Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Amateur Paleontologist Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 @thelivingdead531 We got the same heat wave back here in France... Opalised fossils are the best: a wonderful mix between paleontology and mineralogy! Q. Where do dinosaurs study? A. At Khaan Academy!... My ResearchGate profile Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goatinformationist Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 Cold black tea for that sunburn. Tannic acid takes the pain away and repairs radiation damage to the skin. And no, I'm not one of those. My last ten years in research were spent at the CDC's, here in Atlanta. I picked up a few things. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tidgy's Dad Posted August 3, 2018 Share Posted August 3, 2018 Lots of belemnites! And those bivalves look pretty good to me! Worth the sunburn! Life's Good! Tortoise Friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David in Japan Posted August 3, 2018 Share Posted August 3, 2018 It is definitely worn Belemnites' fossil. Looks similar to what we find here on the other side of the Channel at the Cap gris nez. The belemnites we find there are called Neohibolites minimus if that can help. 1 ~~~~~~~~~~~~〇~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Warmest greetings from Kumamoto、 Japan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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