Saturday, March 23, 2013

Nummulite Foraminifera Fossil


This foraminifera fossil is known as a Nummulites laevigatus?. It was found near Soissons, Aisne, France. The fossil dates to the Eocene Epoch (about 47 million years ago). This fossil originally just a smooth disk about the size of an American dime. Using a belt sander, the surface was taken off revealing more spiral chambers.

Thanks to Dave for this fossil.

UPDATE on 2020/02/15 added species name.

2 comments:

Tony Edger said...

Very cool. Amazing what a single-celled organism can produce.

Anonymous said...

I found a fossil and was trying to identify the species