This is a delicate job – reattaching the spines of a dried sea urchin in the Nottingham Natural History Museum, Wollaton Hall.
The needles hold them in place while the adhesive dries.
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This one is Heterocentrotus mamillatus, the slate pencil urchin.
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today’s offerings
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But, as the tide dropped, the day brightened, and once the chalk beds were exposed I did get #echinoid, #belemnite and #coral #fossils from the exposure.
And later learned that the next bay up yielded a baby mammoth tooth the day before ... It could have been me!
George the Gorilla
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