chalk pits, exciting! 🐚
I tend to find fossils at the sea near chalk cliffs.
I don't think this is a micraster, which are more heart shaped.
This is rather round and 'plump' (it has a very satifying shape and feel to it, found it many years ago)
Looked it up, might be a Echinocorys scutata 🌒
you can't really tell the full shape of it in the drawing/painting as it's a top view, not a side view.
Here is an image of the fossil when I found it...
Probably not a micraster as you say. I still have one, solid flint, from all those years ago, waiting to be rediscovered in a cardboard box. Same family as your fossil, all little sea urchins. Lovely painting btw.
oh, how lovely you still have one from all those years ago, to be rediscovered; wonderful.
And, solid flint! There is something so perfect and satisfying about their shape, so wondrous about their history and the connection through time... 🌒
and, thank you for your kind feedback 🤍
Well here it is. Found again. I used to look for fossils on the Wilshire chalk downs when I was a kid. This is the only one that survives from that time. I did have a couple that were chalk but this one, being transformed into the stuff of arrow heads, was always special.
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I tend to find fossils at the sea near chalk cliffs.
I don't think this is a micraster, which are more heart shaped.
This is rather round and 'plump' (it has a very satifying shape and feel to it, found it many years ago)
Looked it up, might be a Echinocorys scutata 🌒
Here is an image of the fossil when I found it...
And, solid flint! There is something so perfect and satisfying about their shape, so wondrous about their history and the connection through time... 🌒
and, thank you for your kind feedback 🤍