440 million years old fossil on Dutch beach?

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Hindia fibrosa

A week ago, Hannes and Klaas Fey were walking on the beach near the Slufter nature reserve on Texel island, the Netherlands. Then, they found a small fossil.

Arthur Oosterbaan of Ecomare museum thinks the fossil may be a Hindia fibrosa. A sponge from the Ordovician, about 440 million years old.

Maybe about 150,000 years ago, during the Ice Age, a glacier transported the little sponge fossil from Scandinavia to Texel.

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