Close up of the exposed wood:
Random picture from a search of what it should look like out of the exposed earth:
I've had this one at least two years and it was found directly within the tidal area. It's notably dried and fractured in that time. Probably should coat it with clear nail polish (edit: I did it chat.). I have more fully encased (it's in the pic above with 3 pcs) but have not got around to ordering more polish lol.
Me too, they're so pretty. They basically fall out of the wall in Dorset.
You can see what happens when the wood gets exposed on the little black one. The big guy is clay.
One that's mostly polished up:
I am saving these for teaching tools. They were collected with help from a good friend of mine that does palaeontology. My research is only Holocene lol.
I posted some snaps here when I first pulled them out of the ground of this batch. I haven't polished the resin yet on most of the encased ones, but I'll post a snap after my phone charges a little bit. I have some fossils that turned into clay, ancient wood fragments and belemnites in there too. All are from the Jurassic Coast in Dorset.
They will decay within 2 years after hitting oxygen. Solution: Encase them in resin. Source: What I did with these pyrite fossils on my desk.
Yay! Sometimes there is a learning curve. Ya did it. :)
Aberdeen and Glasgow too tbh.
If it were a just world, nearly all US presidents would be tried at the Hauge.
You can find pyrite fossils in Pennsylvania as well, surprisingly.
https://youtu.be/eueLZrt685I