Paul D. Taylor
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Paul D. Taylor
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Invertebrate palaeontologist and bryozoologist at the Natural History Museum, London.
The Fenestella sensu lato on the left has barbed spines which were probably used as grappling hooks to stabilise the colony. A really nice example. The pinnate colony is Ptylopora. Could they be Carboniferous?
November 8, 2025 at 8:02 PM
La Barde dawn last Friday for comparison.
November 7, 2025 at 5:51 PM
There are meshes too but not attached to the screws do they might be other genera of Fenestrata.
October 30, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Any chance that this is a microconchid rather than a baby nautiloid? It would be interesting if this were so as microconchids are rare in the Jurassic.
October 28, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Any chance of this being a microconchid rather than a baby nautiloid? It would be an interesting find if so.
October 28, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I think it was taken from the foreshore beneath the cliffs south of Whitby harbour.
October 20, 2025 at 9:40 AM
I think your fossil is more likely to be an ammonite than a nautiloid, and my guess is that it is Jurassic in age.
October 17, 2025 at 2:40 PM