You can always find hidden treasures on the beach and that is exactly what Logan and Layne Wolfenden found at Dauphin Beach last week.
Carla Wolfenden, their mom, tells us what they stumbled upon.
“It’s called an inoceramus and it’s from the Jurassic Period. She showed it to me and I thought well it’s a shell but it looks like a rock and so I took pictures of it and sent it to the Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre in Morden. They replied the next morning and said that it’s a common fossil to find but usually just the cast or the mould of the shell, not the actual shell itself; so this is the actual fossilized shell. So it’s less common, it’s a common fossil but finding it like this is less common.”
Logan tells us where she found it.
“It was at Dauphin Lake and it was pretty close to the water. I saw the top and it looked like a rock and then the bottom looked like a shell.”
The family is always scouting for interesting things to find, but this by far is the most memorable.
