| How to identify a fossil?
Whilst walking along the beach at Whitby earlier this year I found a pebble (dark red, possibly originally clay, with what appears to be a fossil embedded in it.
Where can I find info which might help me to identify it. To me it looks like a fossilised beetle or similar. It's approx. 5cm long by 4cm wide, bearing in mind it has probably been squashed and pushed out of shape a bit. At the front end there appears to be pincer type shapes - or could it be the back end!
(It'll probably turn out to be ancient seaweed, with my imagination working overtime, but whatever it is, I'd like to have in identification but I don't know where to take it, or who to ask).
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