Fossils were you don't expect to find them

[Joeri_R]

In the small country of Belgium there is a city called Ostend, which lies near the North Sea and thus has a harbour. To boost economy and oversea trade they build great stone walls so bigger ships can easily make their turn to get into the port. This walls are made of limestone rocks. Since I go looking for shark teeth a lot on the beach I wondered if there were any fossils to find there. And yess, I was lucky  I never expected to find fossils from probably Carbon era in the rock walls of our harbour  

 

1) Caninia cornucopiae, a solitary coral

2) leptaeana sp.

3) bryozoa, fenestella sp.

4) brachiopod, spirifer sp.

5) trilobite piece

6) brachiopods

(Thanks to my good friend Anthonie Hellemond for determination and dating the rocks probably from Carbon era. I just knew they were fossils, I only recognised the trilobite and the spirifer  )

 

and the last two pictures are sharkteeth I found on the beach.

 

 

 

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Very nice! 

The Leptaena is gorgeous.

[FossilsAnonymous]

Great finds!

[Manticocerasman]

Great finds Joeri

[Nimravis]

Great finds and pictures.

[Archie]

Beautiful finds!

[Innocentx]

You have found some great representatives of Paleozoic marine life.

I've gone fossil hunting on these type of anti-erosion walls at lakes.

Everything must be investigated! 

[Joeri_R]

6 hours ago, Innocentx said:

You have found some great representatives of Paleozoic marine life.

I've gone fossil hunting on these type of anti-erosion walls at lakes.

Everything must be investigated! 

Indeed, every...single...rock...

[Tidgy's Dad]

3 hours ago, Joeri_R said:

Indeed, every...single...rock...

Every grain of sand................

[Monica]

I, too, love the Leptaena - it's beautiful!!!