Beautiful perpendicular views of #Nummulites #fossils on the floor, never seen them this nice before #geology #UrbanGeology ⚒️

Sitting on the shingle beach at #EastWittering summer hols '22, my then 7yo comes over and asks:

'Daddy, is this a microfossil?'.

ID then confirmed by micropalaeo colleague Mike Simmons. How she found a fossil #foraminifera #Nummulites on the shingle is beyond me! Future #micropaleontologist!

A large benthic foraminiferal fossil from the middle Eocene in Libya—color pencil for size. These are single-celled organisms!

Another gorgeous #Nummulites #foraminifera #fossil specimen from the #Eocene —this one is Nummulites gizhensis from the Wadi Thamat Formation (Middle #Eocene: ~48–41 Ma). Yuge!!

A USB stick next to a rounded, lenticular Nummulites benthic foraminifera fossil (which used to be one cell!) dating to the Eocene period (~50-35 million years old)

Here's a juggernaut #Nummulites, an #Eocene large #benthic #foraminifera —note that this is ONE cell!! (also cool fact: the Pyramids in Egypt are built with limestone rocks that contain Nummulites #fossils)

Meaning of #nummulites nummulite or numulitas, it is said losprotozoos rizopodos fossil foraminifera of the tertiary era... nummulites

Significado de #nummulites nummulite ou numulitas, é losprotozoos disse rizopodos foraminíferos fóssil da época terciária... nummulites

The pyramids and many structures in #Egypt are made of nummulitic limestone, as #Nummulites occur naturally in limestone rocks 🪨 that line the Nile River.