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Recently took a 2 day trip up to Gingin which is around an hour drive north of Perth and a nice little town. Went with my dad and checked out some Chalk exposures at One Tree Hill and Molecap Hill. The weekend we went just so happened to be in the middle of a heatwave around Perth with temperatures reaching 40 degrees around midday so we had to do the hunting around dawn and dusk. We ended up finding some nice shells, sea urchin spines, cool little gastropods and had a great time. Chalk exposures on the southern wall of the quarry at molecap hill Tiny gastropod fossil (sounds better than worm fossil) in situ on the ground Finds from molecap hill: Inoceramid, unknown shell and some microfossils (gastropods, sea urchin spines and tiny shells) from surface collecting and sifting The only find from One Tree Hill was this nice little shell positive and negative my dad found cracking some (glauconitic?) nodules
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Found this while splitting some chalk (80 myo) from Molecap Hill Quarry in Gingin. The whole section of “scales” is about 2 cm long. Not sure what these “scales” are but my imagination goes to fish scales. Any ideas?
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Hi guys, I was digging around in the Gingin Chalk a week ago, and I found this, as well as some echinoid spines, bivalves and crinoid fragments. What could this be? I thought maybe a jawbone, but I really don't know. An help would be amazing!! Thanks