Fossil folly

Found a fossil, picked it up, tried to be clever and came unstuck. The autumn seas have reshaped the fluid clay cliffs of the Barton Beds; fossil rich deposits some 40 million years old laid down when the region was a expansive inland sea. Scouring the freshly exposed clay horizons I spied a fair sized sharks tooth from striatolamia macrota; a good example, it had survived unscathed throughout its geological journey. Trying to be clever I thought it would make a good photo placed amongst the shells and pebbles of the intertidal; and it would have, had a rouge wave not swept it up and returned it from whence it came all those millions of years before. I had to laugh, but will I have learnt the lesson?