Hardouinia mortonis (Weathered)
Hardouinia mortonis
Peedee Formation
Maastrichtian Age, Late Cretaceous (~70 Ma)
Holden Beach, Brunswick County, North Carolina, USA
Self collected approximately between 2001 and 2005
A forgotten specimen of mine I recently found in a box of old seashells, this is a heavily weathered but mostly complete specimen I found as a young boy. While I've been a fan of fossils for quite some time, I both did not completely know the true nature of these sea urchins around the time, nor did I typically treasure things that had imperfections when I was that young.
Now, I can safely say that this is a very special specimen; this may be one of the first fossils, if not the first fossil, I have collected myself.
As a sidenote, my younger brother managed to find a nearly perfect specimen sometime between 2007-2010, which was a source of my envy for over a decade until the beach replinishement project!
Photo Information
- Taken with LGE LM-G900
- Focal Length 4.8 mm
- Exposure Time 1/543
- f Aperture f/1.8
- ISO Speed 50
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