My visit to the Isle of Wight in July this year resulted in this find. It is a couple of oyster shells, both fairly complete and stuck together in a fairly usual manner. Upper and lower shells are clearly visible on the lower specimen and they are infilled with sandstone.
The specimen was located among the rocks exposed at low tide on the beach between Shanklin and Sandown, just below where the railway station of Lake sits near the cliff top. They were wedged in a crevice in the rocks. Total length of the fossil is about 150 cm and width 80 cm at maximum
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