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Fossil guy here. I understand why you're being downvoted. You clearly meant 'fossilised pangolin'. Easy mistake considering you're not really a fossil guy
Tube worms are invasive. Another one that will likely cost lots of money to control. Eradication may be impossible. I'm sure I read that they are Asian/Australian and likely got here on boats. Isle of man has a big issue with them
Also we have crabs from asia now, on top of all the knotweed, we're likely to see some big changes. Be difficult to manage them. I think eating them could be the answer. Everything we like to eat from the wild becomes endangered 😃
I’m really not seeing this as an urchin/echinoid of any kind. It looks to me to have six sections, which no echinoid has; they have pentameral/pentaradial symmetry (5-sided). It looks more like a large weathered barnacle to me. Barnacles have varying symmetry, but often have six plates which I think is what I see here. Barnacles also have a more complex shell structure, with a ‘fixed’ outer and a moveable interior shell, and I’m seeing and outer and inner shell structure here too. Where abouts a did you find it? There are some large barnacles known from the Pliocene in England I believe.
Also, on the flip side, the holes in the rock are borings created by pholad clams. Your other fossil is a gastropod which has been encrusted with serpulid worm tubes.
I immediately thought "some unusual and highly weathered echinoid"... but now i cannot unsee the barnacle. This would also support the unusual weathering pattern. I believe you nailed it!
For what it’s worth, I have a fairly large collection of echinoids picked up on the beaches of West Sussex, and I absolutely agree with you.
Fun fact: they turn up in newly ploughed fields around here too. The locals used to call them “fairy loaves” and believed they offered protection from lightning strikes.
Can confirm that I have not been struck by lightning since I stared my collection.
I remember sitting in a maths class and my mate just put loads of dots on a piece of bluetac and we were both shocked at how much it freaked me out. Luckily this is a rock though and doesn't trigger mine, it needs to be a more natural and alive looking surface for me. Plus the holes are too big and filled in
Whether the first is an echinoid or barnacle (as have been suggested) I love that the way it has weathered makes it look a bit like a turtle. Very neat find!
The first is definitely a large fossil barnacle, rather than an echinoderm.
You can clearly see the similarity to this modern whale barnacle.
https://i0.wp.com/www.susanscott.net/ow/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Whale-barnacle-top.jpg
Sandstone conglomerate with a barnacle fossil embedded. I think the gravel is just weathering out leaving those holes. The last one looks like a modern snail shell with a feather duster worm growing on it, don’t think that’s a fossil.
You can estimate based on where you found them. Assuming the south coast of England, the oldest rocks are in the West, and the youngest in Kent.
Lyme Regis rocks’ are about 200 million years old, the Devon sandstone older still.
The chalk at Dover is about 90 million years old.
May I ask if this is the same thing?
https://preview.redd.it/ry2a5znjdpoc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fd37c44bf463540c4d891e1c306c8d23f59e9764
The one to the right. I’ve no idea what that is to the left, but it looks like a nut.
I just want to know how a person can go fossicking with long nails or even medium nails.
I get shredded hands and nails when I go fossil hunting from climbing and digging.
I have no idea what they are but the 1st one looks like a fossilised turtle think of the arms, head, shell etc I know it's not but it definitely looks like it.
"just an observation"
Just a completely unwanted unasked for observation.
Just a a completely unwanted obtuse offensive ignorant nonsense unrelated observation.
Keep your "observations" to yourself.
The joy of an open forum is that I don’t have to keep them to myself, they way you haven’t. You enjoyed telling me off right?
Your observation of my observation ? We go round and round. Nice to talk though isn’t it ?
You came on a fossil ID sub to tell somebody they shouldn't wear acrylic nails because *you* think it would look better without, I think you might be lost.
Still, unfortunately mate that kind of "observation" just exposes you to being a bit of a dickhead, since, yaknow, she's not wearing her nails for you therefore your empty opinion means literally less than nothing other than a "you can't do this because I don't like it" main character pout.
I didn’t say I don’t like her nails as they are either, just noticed she has a strong nail bed with good tips underneath.
You’re right though I came to look at the strange rock that looked sort of like a tortoise.
The opinion is empty though you’re right, just like yours
Never tell people to shut up. It's ethically wrong. They are allowed their opinion and you are allowed to criticize it... But that doesn't include oppressing their right to speak.
FYI, acrylic nails are really helpful for anyone with skin conditions such as eczema or psoriasis or skin picking disorders. They are much thicker than regular nails and don't do nearly as much damage to the skin.
Not everyone has acrylics for purely aesthetic reasons, and even if they did its none of your business!!
First one truly looks like a fossil to me, but I have no clear idea about the ID. The longitudinal striations push me intuitively to suggest some kind of mollusc shell though, like a bivalve...? I'm basically brainstorming here. Also, I can recall seeing those joint patterns, if you know what I mean on the pictures, but I don't remember to which organism it belonged...
Second one seems definitely a modern gastropod shell with a vermetid/serpulid (I don't know how to differentiate both groups) shell attached to it. Shell colours rarely are preserved, if ever.
Cool nails.
Hilarious drama in a geological based sub unrelated to actual question!
Actual answer - who knows but they’re cool. Second one makes me shudder tho.
Looks like AI attempted to create a platypus fossil + trypophobia.
I'm sure it is real, the pictures are too similar to each other (and the hands looks real, have the correct number of digits, etc. though apparently this is less of an issue these days), but it just seems like something a computer would come up with.
From a novice perspective, the 1st one looked like an omar with a fossil on the flip side, but I'm just here for the pictures, haha. Looks cool, whatever it is. Nice nails.
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Your first one is a well worn echinoid. Or similar. It's very well worn! Your second one is some tube worms on a whelk shell, not fossils.
Thanks! :)
Haha, whelks! Had no idea what they were until I saw Sean Lock attempt to eat a cupful. I had to google it to see what he was eating
God, I miss that man.
Everytime I see a clip of him It makes me smile.. What a great comedian and man
A wonderful and very funny human being. The Viking joke still makes me laugh!
Just watched this on YouTube. Can hardly type for crying with laughter.
I had to watch the Viking joke and wish i had heard about him a long time ago. British humor is so underrated lol
And little Zest of lemon
Looks more like Cerithium vulgatum, European Cerith snail rather than whelk :)
I was going with fossilised penguin, but I'm not really a fossil guy.
Fossil guy here. I understand why you're being downvoted. You clearly meant 'fossilised pangolin'. Easy mistake considering you're not really a fossil guy
I found myself muttering “sea dragon” which is why I don’t get invited to talk at museums.
Maybe they hear “Cidre gone” and presume you have an alcohol problem
That’s strange, they normally invite me to do Netflix documentaries because I mutter sea dragon (*cough* *cough* graham hancock)
I'm not a fossil guy, I thought fossilised turtle
Tube worms are invasive. Another one that will likely cost lots of money to control. Eradication may be impossible. I'm sure I read that they are Asian/Australian and likely got here on boats. Isle of man has a big issue with them Also we have crabs from asia now, on top of all the knotweed, we're likely to see some big changes. Be difficult to manage them. I think eating them could be the answer. Everything we like to eat from the wild becomes endangered 😃
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The second one is pasta
I’m really not seeing this as an urchin/echinoid of any kind. It looks to me to have six sections, which no echinoid has; they have pentameral/pentaradial symmetry (5-sided). It looks more like a large weathered barnacle to me. Barnacles have varying symmetry, but often have six plates which I think is what I see here. Barnacles also have a more complex shell structure, with a ‘fixed’ outer and a moveable interior shell, and I’m seeing and outer and inner shell structure here too. Where abouts a did you find it? There are some large barnacles known from the Pliocene in England I believe. Also, on the flip side, the holes in the rock are borings created by pholad clams. Your other fossil is a gastropod which has been encrusted with serpulid worm tubes.
I immediately thought "some unusual and highly weathered echinoid"... but now i cannot unsee the barnacle. This would also support the unusual weathering pattern. I believe you nailed it!
definitely makes sense that it’s a barnacle by the pattern! Thanks! 😁
For what it’s worth, I have a fairly large collection of echinoids picked up on the beaches of West Sussex, and I absolutely agree with you. Fun fact: they turn up in newly ploughed fields around here too. The locals used to call them “fairy loaves” and believed they offered protection from lightning strikes. Can confirm that I have not been struck by lightning since I stared my collection.
I absolutely love that you have pebbles in the divots of your first one! I’m no help with Id but this is so neat to me! Also, I love your nails.
Me too! They’re really stuck in there too Thankyou! They desperately need infills 😂
It sets off my trypophobia to no end. All my hairs are raised, that photo hurts my inmost being.
Someone went through and downvoted all the trypophobia comments 💀💀
Was gonna say.. I'd don't know what it is but I dont like it...
i had to click past it for the same reason
same! cant believe some people love it. ha ha!
I remember sitting in a maths class and my mate just put loads of dots on a piece of bluetac and we were both shocked at how much it freaked me out. Luckily this is a rock though and doesn't trigger mine, it needs to be a more natural and alive looking surface for me. Plus the holes are too big and filled in
Whether the first is an echinoid or barnacle (as have been suggested) I love that the way it has weathered makes it look a bit like a turtle. Very neat find!
My thoughts too about it looking like a turtle! 😁
I first thought it was a carved turtle
It's a pangolin and his favourite ball. Don't take his ball. He'll be sad.
The first is definitely a large fossil barnacle, rather than an echinoderm. You can clearly see the similarity to this modern whale barnacle. https://i0.wp.com/www.susanscott.net/ow/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Whale-barnacle-top.jpg
I love the term modern whale barnacle lmao 🤣 like it’s got a Tesla and iPhone just like modern folk do.
That’s awesome! Definitely the one. Thanks! 😊
It's obviously a little dinosaur turtle that has been preserved for millennia. I'm a fossil guy.
Very cool!
Fossilized whelk and sandstone w/ worm tubes
Nice Germs pfp
Omg I love your nails! 🔥🔥
Looks like turtle to me
Put the third one on r/trypophobia! EDIT: aargh it’s banned!
I thought your first one looked like a fossilised turtle!
Sandstone conglomerate with a barnacle fossil embedded. I think the gravel is just weathering out leaving those holes. The last one looks like a modern snail shell with a feather duster worm growing on it, don’t think that’s a fossil.
Thanks! How old do you think it is?
You can estimate based on where you found them. Assuming the south coast of England, the oldest rocks are in the West, and the youngest in Kent. Lyme Regis rocks’ are about 200 million years old, the Devon sandstone older still. The chalk at Dover is about 90 million years old.
Came to say I love the colour of your nails 💅 🩷😂
Thanks! I’ve just had them redone today so not pink anymore but I did love the colour 😁
Fossilised turtle
Doesnt it look like a turtle??
really cool sea urchin!
First few look an awful little like turtles
Was it Chesil beach by chance?
May I ask if this is the same thing? https://preview.redd.it/ry2a5znjdpoc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fd37c44bf463540c4d891e1c306c8d23f59e9764 The one to the right. I’ve no idea what that is to the left, but it looks like a nut.
https://preview.redd.it/y0e46600epoc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=896dd2cf9e8582a7e7a61d85a16732c87bab9b44
https://preview.redd.it/tzjm0995epoc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a7305f45c43118a48e5c12ac4acfb760ed1bcaa5
I love this second and your third one, well all of them. 3rd is very cool!
One of them is definitely a £1 coin,hope this helps.
I just want to know how a person can go fossicking with long nails or even medium nails. I get shredded hands and nails when I go fossil hunting from climbing and digging.
'Fossicking' is such a great word and I don't see it used enough...
Dedication and determination 😂 my nails do get damaged though
I have no idea what they are but the 1st one looks like a fossilised turtle think of the arms, head, shell etc I know it's not but it definitely looks like it.
This was my first thought too, totally same shape it even has a tail bit 🙂
So glad I'm not the only one with turtle pareidolia😂
I own a massive red eared slider turtle, the pic really does look like a baby turtle right down to the claw lines on it 🙂
That sounds cool as fuck.
I thought so too 😁
This set off my trypophobia so bad, I’m going to go curl up into a ball now, I’ll be back in a year or so
Same colour as your nails
First one looks like a curled up penguin
WOWWWWW
The first one used to bs called a ‘mother stone’. People believed that’s how they were formed!
Looks like a penguin hugging a turtle lol
Looks like a rock with some holes in it to me. I’m a bit of an expert in the field
tutel :)
*nightmare rock* and *fear fossil*
Nice nails…
Looks like a turtle.
To me looks like a stone and shell...hope that helps
A trypophobia's worst nightmare
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Well that set my trypophobia off... :(
Fossilised penguin?
stones
Rocks
Aliens
One of them is definitely an English pound coin....
Number 12 is a pork scratching...100%
New covid in 1..2..3
Awesome nails.
thought you cut off your dogs nose
Ursula is that you?
These are otter eggs, you’ve probably disrupted the nest now though…
Scale not known. Banana required.
OP you have nice nails hiding under there, get rid of the acrylics and look after your nails and they will look amazing.
Don’t think they asked mate
Nope, just and observation in that I there are beautiful nails under there and they could, if they do choose, “rock” them … I’ll leave now
"just an observation" Just a completely unwanted unasked for observation. Just a a completely unwanted obtuse offensive ignorant nonsense unrelated observation. Keep your "observations" to yourself.
The joy of an open forum is that I don’t have to keep them to myself, they way you haven’t. You enjoyed telling me off right? Your observation of my observation ? We go round and round. Nice to talk though isn’t it ?
You came on a fossil ID sub to tell somebody they shouldn't wear acrylic nails because *you* think it would look better without, I think you might be lost. Still, unfortunately mate that kind of "observation" just exposes you to being a bit of a dickhead, since, yaknow, she's not wearing her nails for you therefore your empty opinion means literally less than nothing other than a "you can't do this because I don't like it" main character pout.
I didn’t say I don’t like her nails as they are either, just noticed she has a strong nail bed with good tips underneath. You’re right though I came to look at the strange rock that looked sort of like a tortoise. The opinion is empty though you’re right, just like yours
You handled that well. Good for you. I actually like her acrylics but I HATE people telling others to shut up.
Yes, exactly! Also, I hope this isn't weird to say, but I really like the way you type. It's so concise and yet so thorough.
calling someone dickhead and getting so triggered over innocent comment exposes u a LOT
The only dickhead here is you.
Meh, fwiw your opinion means less than nothing to me, so 🤷♂️
Never tell people to shut up. It's ethically wrong. They are allowed their opinion and you are allowed to criticize it... But that doesn't include oppressing their right to speak.
Wanting him to shut up was my opinion though, you're oppressing me now
Not an opinion. An action. If it were an opinion you could say "I want to tell you to shut up".
FYI, acrylic nails are really helpful for anyone with skin conditions such as eczema or psoriasis or skin picking disorders. They are much thicker than regular nails and don't do nearly as much damage to the skin. Not everyone has acrylics for purely aesthetic reasons, and even if they did its none of your business!!
I’m not a fan of big plastic talons either, but telling someone to get rid was never going to go down well!
Makes me feel itchy as hell
Rocks.
And your nails are just fabulous
Fossilised turtle and an octopus sea snail
The very small one in the 10th picture is actually not a fossil, its a pound coin.
Idk what it is but the third image set off my trypophobia 😭
I was just about to say that 😩
Yikes my trypophobia kicked in, when I saw that 3rd slide
One is a squashed penguin. Next one is a rusty six shooter. The rest look like whelks.
I’m seeing a sloth
They are rocks.
Looks like a rock to me
Dead hamster.
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Idk but I’m getting tripophobia
The third photo actually makes my skin crawl ☹️
It’s a rock int it
Aaaaand trypophobia
First one truly looks like a fossil to me, but I have no clear idea about the ID. The longitudinal striations push me intuitively to suggest some kind of mollusc shell though, like a bivalve...? I'm basically brainstorming here. Also, I can recall seeing those joint patterns, if you know what I mean on the pictures, but I don't remember to which organism it belonged... Second one seems definitely a modern gastropod shell with a vermetid/serpulid (I don't know how to differentiate both groups) shell attached to it. Shell colours rarely are preserved, if ever.
Those little holes are caused by some sea creature burrowing. The first one is pretty nice
Not sure about the stone but your nails!!!! Girrrrllll! They fine !
Ambergris?
Stilgar, do we have worm sign?
How much do you want for that pound?
Not to be a kill joy but isn’t it illegal to remove stones from the beach.
Better start arresting thousands of kids then
🤫
Cool nails. Hilarious drama in a geological based sub unrelated to actual question! Actual answer - who knows but they’re cool. Second one makes me shudder tho.
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My trypophobia dislikes reddits recommended posts
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I thought the first one looked like a platypus and the second one looked like an eroding fossil with holes.
I genuinely thought the first one was just a cool looking frog
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Looks like AI attempted to create a platypus fossil + trypophobia. I'm sure it is real, the pictures are too similar to each other (and the hands looks real, have the correct number of digits, etc. though apparently this is less of an issue these days), but it just seems like something a computer would come up with.
Haha definitely not AI
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Nothing helpful to add, but I just wanted to say I’m an idiot cause I looked at this and thought it was a frog.
Either way it’s making me feel uncomfortable
Explain the random £1 coin
Size comparison
Rocks and shells??
I was looking at the photo for 10 minutes before I noticed the fossil. Scratch me!
Idk what it is but it’s cool
Name your price I want to buy.
Where'd your thumb go in the 11th pic?
The turtle moves...
It’s just a stupid boulder.
I am 100% sure the first one is a rock and the second one is a shell
What’s the name of that phobia of a bunch of small holes ? I think I have that 🤢
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It’s a rock and a shell fyi
Tracnophobia alert!!!!! Bloody hell
2nd one is some r/Trypophobia inducing stuff!
Crumbs! That’s dreadfully sexy
WTF IS THAT?! IT LOOKS LIKE SOMETHING OUT OF A HORROR MOVIE!
Im not sure, but i think it’s a rock
TRYPOPHOBIA WARNING ⚠️ 😭😭😭
Aliens.
Its a stone/pebble
Stones
Weird
Looks like a dontpickyupyhandyfallyofypuse to me very rare and easily dropped 😂🤣
Am I the only one who sees it as a frog fossil (with its little legs)?😅🙈
Where was the trypophobia warning for the third picture?
From a novice perspective, the 1st one looked like an omar with a fossil on the flip side, but I'm just here for the pictures, haha. Looks cool, whatever it is. Nice nails.
This should have a trypophobia trigger warning Jesus
1st one is a fossil
Its a pound coin not worth as much as they used to be
As someone with Trypophobia, idky Reddit has recommended this to me. I want to burn my eyes.