Echinocorys Scutata found ( Featherbed Lane ) in the rain 🌧

The intention was to scout out a site that was host to the Rare Dark Green Frittilary Flutterby . But the weather was closing in .

So I decided to go off road just before and search for Bottles and Fossils .

Foxes or Badgers had dug out piles of chalk and I gave them a browse . But if it was dug by badgers they had been abandoned fir a while , as there was no discarded bedding .

But I eventualy came out with results.

A Echinocorys Scutata irregular fossil sea urchin from the Upper Chalk of the Upper Cretaceous.

But this was a new for me ?

It has it's origional shell but the inside is flint , you can see the flint protruding out of the mouth and animals Butthocks .

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I have found examples of Echinocorys from the Chalk. Flint internal but missing their shell completely , although they were derived from the Chalk. They were found in the Thanet Sands at NESCOT College at Ewell East .

And apparently they are often dug up in the grounds of the college .

Nomaly these Fossils are found complete but filled with Chalk and surrounded by it too . Not Free with origional shell and packed internally like a rock