PROEUHOPLITES: TREASURES FROM THE BLUE SLIPPER

Cradled within the soft blue-grey embrace of the Gault Clay lies this beautifully preserved Proeuhoplites subtuberculatus, collected from Bed II (iv) of the Folkestone Gault in Kent, southeast England. Measuring just 35 millimetres across, this small ammonite carries within its coiled shell the memory of an ancient sea that covered much of what is now southern England and northern France