Fossils
Really old stuff
AMMONITE, Parkinsonia, Jurassic-Inferior Colite. Shell tightly coiled, laterally flattened, numerous ribs straight or slightly curved on inner & outer whorls, but branched on outer whorls, ventral margin which is also grooved. Up to 4" in diameter. |
FOSSIL FISH. Knightia alta from the Green River shale formation of Western Wyoming sometime during the Eocene Epoch of geologic time (50,000,000 years ago) |
FOSSIL TOOTH & SHARK TEETH. Section of cheek tooth of a MASTODON 2 to 3 million BC. Quaternary-Tertiary Epoch, Pleistocene-Miocene. fossil sharks teeth, the white ones from an unknown provenance & the dark one from marl deposit at Green Island Dunedin Otago New Zealand. |
Rock with fossil shells from Measly Beach South Otago New Zealand. |
Another rock with shells provenance unknown. |
FOSSIL SHELL. Pecten. World-wide. Upper Eocene to recent times. Width 1 to 8 inches. This specimen from California USA. |
PECOPTERIS. Upper palaeozoic era carboniferous coal measures (British Isles}. Pennsylvanian (North America). c.310-280 million years BC. A seed fern with fronds of numerous small blunt oval leaflets or pinnules, opposite each other on the main stem. found Dugger, Indiana. USA. |