Monday, January 9, 2017

Saint-Malo Beach France


Today, I will not post fossils but images of shells that might one day be fossils. These pictures were taken in August 2016 at Saint-Malo France. A lot of limpet shells can be found, they appear to be Patella vulgata. Also small striped snail shells that might some type of Gibbula umbilicalis?



Seaweed in the sand.

2 comments:

Tony Edger said...

Thanks for the images from Saint-Malo. Reminds me that Anthony Doerr's novel All the Light We Cannot See, set partly in Saint-Malo, has a wonderfully strong streak of natural history in it.
Tony

Michael Popp said...

We were on a tour of Normandy so I did not get to spend a lot of time there. It is a very beautiful place and the food is great. What a coincidence you mention that book, while I was at the beach looking at shells, my wife was trying find places mentioned in that book. She could not find any one who was familiar with the story though.