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#MolluscMonday Table top at Petworth NT made of gastropod-rich limestone, probably the so-called Petworth Marble, a variety of Early Cretaceous Wealden Marble.
#FossilFriday Branneroceras, a Late Carboniferous goniatite. Part of a large block of limestone packed with this ammonoid on display at the NIGPAS museum in Nanjing.
#FolkloreThursday Fossil of a cystoid, an extinct animal related to starfish, known in folklore as crystal apples