Is this a fossil? Found on the beach after a storm. The underside is quite vibrant green

Sep 19, 2020 3:51 AM

Heaps of detail

It’s very flat

Zoom in to see the ridges

Very green. With something in the middle

It feels brittle like a shell

fossils

seashells

Sanddollar

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Forbidden Thin Mint

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I think it's a sand dollar that hasn't completely dried out yet

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I believe you’re correct. They’re purple when alive. I think it’s dead and as you said, just not dried out completely.

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No thats just a sand dollar

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Old enough ones are fossils but that one looks relatively new.

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So it’s living? I threw it back in the ocea

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Those are a species related to sea urchins, so 'yes' - but also 'no' since that particular example is dead.

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No that one looks dead.

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Maybe. Idk.

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