Cliff hanger

Yesterday’s walk took us along a cliff of fossilferous material, to me it appeared brick like in its nature, but Brian applied the little bit he had learnt from reading and his brother – from when they used to go fossil hunting together – to understand what we could see.

He said that we would probably find a fossil between the strata, where it looks darker and more like sandstone, so we walked on a bit further where the darker material met the rising path. We then had a little root around in the rocks, not damaging any, but soon found signs that fossils may be found there. Apparently the area we live in was underwater tens of millions of years ago, during the Cretaceous period, and what Brian found was what looked like a sea creature.

One thing we are sure it’s not – although it was one of Brian’s thoughts – is a Trilobite. Apparently they were long extinct by the Cretaceous period, by at least 150 million years. It is probably more likely some marine mollusk or something similar. Now, I know this may seem like I know what I’m talking about, but I don’t. I reached out to Alan, Brian’s brother, for some help. Our family palaeontologist put me straight on what it wasn’t and what it could be. For now we are still unsure as to what it was …..