Field guide No. 448

In a limestone quarry, a slab with a fossil fish in it is bent and cracked along the line of the fish, as if it swam off in a curve. The rock went with it.

Fossil fish bends the stone

Still swimming, technically.

In a limestone quarry, a slab with a fossil fish in it is bent and cracked along the line of the fish, as if it swam off in a curve. The rock went with it.

Field noteFossils keep still for a living. This one has flexed, and the slab had to bend round it.

Specimen
No. 448
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Physics
Where it doesn’t exist
A pale limestone quarry.
Nearest existing relative
A fossil fish.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Objects

Also possible, also breaking physics