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Jack Parker-Tyreman posted an image in the group Beach Fossils from the myFOSSIL app 3 years, 8 months ago
3 years, 8 months ago3 years, 8 months agoAny idea on if this is a trace fossil, and what species this foot is from?
(I found this in the clay beds at my beach which has a nearby cliff that yields fossils from the Pleistocene and middle Eocene)
wow! Maybe young arsinitherium (if that’s how you spell it) but probably not.
Thanks for the suggestion
I’m going to post something else and it would be great to have your opinion on that, please?
I don’t think it is, because I’ve just read it lived in Northern Africa but not England
oh well what beach. iow?
That’s from Hill head
On the mainland
And I found it in the clay
not too familiar there but my guess is a small mammal. Land living. take too a muesuem. very rare
Thanks
It looks like a deformed concretion sphere at most. So if you crack it open there could be fossilized shells or something else inside. Footprints form primarily in sandstone and infrequently in finer sedimentary deposits like siltstone and shale. This also can’t be a dinosaur footprint if you found it in an area dated to the Pleistocene.
And Eocene
Although, it could have been dragged by long shore drift