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Beaumaris ID


Dan 1000

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G'day everyone!

 

I just returned from a trip to Beaumaris today and found something wierd. At first I thought It was a crab as crab fossils were found from this locality: https://beaumarisfossils.org/crabs-burrows/ but I am not too sure. The fossil comes from the Beaumaris Sandstone Formation, late Miocene to early Pliocene.  

 

Thanks,

Dan

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Crab fossils found at Beaumaris

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I will guess some sort of ironstone structures that have become cemented in with the rock, possibly ferruginised invertebrate burrow casts?

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