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  • What Fossil is this?
  • hora
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    Found in a slab (used for paving) on a ride this weekend. Fish?

    bikebouy
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    Pace fork from the 90’s?

    thestabiliser
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    horsetail (plant) would be my guess but it looks like the rock is a greywacke (shallow marine rapid deposition sediment) which would be surprising. It’s nearly 15 years since I graduated though and I haven’t geologied in anger since. get your local uni geology depatment to have a look.

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    crankboy
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    croc

    maccruiskeen
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    It’s nearly 15 years since I graduated though

    Things have moved on a bit since then

    thestabiliser
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    Is that my Justin Robertson Guerilla mastermix? If so I want it back!

    Northwind
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    It’s a test of faith, don’t be weak!

    grizedaleforest
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    thestabilizer has it – horsetail probably. Has a distinctive bamboo like stem that you can see in your photo. Course, when I last geologised you had proper rocks like granite.

    hora
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    Bamboo here in the UK?

    maccruiskeen
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    Bamboo here in the UK?

    Not bamboo – like bamboo in structure. Bamboo and Horsetail are both a kind of grass. You’ll still find horsetail growing here – somewhere within 100m of your house probably.

    But you’re talking about fossils here – things were little different when they were formed. Snickers were still called Marathons and you could have a night out and get a bus home and still have change from a fiver.

    munrobiker
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    The UK has not always been where the UK is now hora- have a google of plate tectonics, it’s way more exciting than fossil sea plants (IMHO, obviously). Scotland was part of Canada.

    (I’m with the others on this, horsetail makes sense)

    thepurist
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    Juvenile Erithacus rubecula

    thestabiliser
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    I’ve changed me mind – it’s a dinosaur penis

    maccruiskeen
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