#FossilFriday: Fossilised Oyster shell from the Lympne excavation

Written By Andy Ward

For a late #fossilfriday we have this amazing fossilised Oyster shell from the Lympne excavation last year!

Its been identified as a very battered left valve of Aetostreon latissimum - a typical oyster of Lower Greensand age (Cretaceous, 145 -66 million years ago), making it c. 115 million years old!

We wonder whether the Romans knew what they'd stuck into their wall.

#findsfriday #fossilfriday #Cretaceous

Andy Ward

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