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Porphry (Geology Temp 71) by Black Country Museums

A type of igneous rock.

 

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Fossil Lobster Mecochirus magna wedsd_1993_245 by Black Country Museums

The lobster lived in the ocean where the Isle of Wight is today, 120 million years ago. At a time when the climate was much warmer than today.

 

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Plant fossil, Calamites (Geology Temp 5) by Black Country Museums

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Reptile skull (Geology Temp_26) by Black Country Museums

This reptile skull is extremely well preserved, with small needle-like teeth.

 

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Cystoide fossil called Staurocustina, 008050 by Black Country Museums

Collected at the Wrens Nest, Dudley, West Midlands, UK.

 

From the Silurian Period, 425 million years ago.

 

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Dictyonema flabelliforme (Geology Temp 36) by Black Country Museums

Dendritic graptolites from the Sheinton Shales, Shropshire.

 

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Fossilised part of a giant clubmoss or lycopod tree, Stigmaria ficiodes, GL1239 by Black Country Museums

Part of a fossil lycopod tree called Stigmaria ficoides which is approximatley 310 million years old.

 

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Fossil Crinoid called Gissocrinus, 008301 by Black Country Museums

Collected at Dudley, West Midlands, UK.

 

This is from the Silurian Period, which is approximatley 425 million years old.

 

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Crinoid, fossilised sea lily, 007895 by Black Country Museums

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Crinoid fossil called Eucalyptocrinus, 014862 by Black Country Museums

Collected at Dudley, West Midlands, UK.

 

From the Silurian Period, 425 million years ago.

 

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Set of fossil gastropods - Cypraea affinis (Geology Temp 50) by Black Country Museums

A set of fossil gastropods identified as Cypraea affinis which are approximatley 13 million years old. They are a type of gastropod more commonly known as cowries.

 

From Manthelan in Central France.

 

From the Fraser Collection at Wolverhampton Art Gallery.

 

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Basalt (Geology Temp 65) by Black Country Museums

Basalt from below Edinburgh Castle

 

This specimen is from the collection at Wednesbury Museum & Art Gallery.

 

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Dioptase mineral specimen, 007032 by Black Country Museums

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Jasper (Geology Temp 95) by Black Country Museums

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Fossil slab 015072 by Black Country Museums

A fossil slab including corals, bryozoan and brachiopods from the Wrens Nest, Dudley, West Midlands, UK.

 

This is 425 million years old.

 

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Oolitic Limestone (Geology Temp 24) by Black Country Museums

A piece of oolitic limestone from Yorkshire.

 

This is from the collection at Wednesbury Museum & Art Gallery.

 

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Haematite & quartz 006581 by Black Country Museums

A specimen of Haematite & quartz from the collection at Dudley Museum & Art Gallery.

 

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Haematite, 006580 by Black Country Museums

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Trilobite fossil called Acaste (in rolled up position) 014854 by Black Country Museums

Collected at Dudley, West Midlands, UK.

 

Dated from the Silurian Period, which is around 425 million years ago.

 

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Crinoid fossil called Sagenocrinus, 008389a,b by Black Country Museums

Collected at Dudley, West Midlands, UK.

 

This is from the Silurian Period, which is approximatley 425 million years old.

 

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Malachite, 007167 by Black Country Museums

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Victorian fake trilobite fossil, GL612 by Black Country Museums

This is a 19th century quarryman's fake trilobite. It is made up of two different species of trilobite carefully joined together. It was made in the 19th Century by a quarryman.

 

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Echinoid, fossilised sea urchin, 007899 by Black Country Museums

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Bivalve, Lophia marshi, GL 12533 by Black Country Museums

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Granite with microgranite 015599 by Black Country Museums

A fragment of granite with a pink microgranite from Dalbeattie, South West Scotland.

 

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Euomphalidae & Ecculiomphalus laevis, 011017 by Black Country Museums

A strange Silurian gastropod (snail) from Dudley

 

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Wind polished pebble (Geology Temp 20) by Black Country Museums

A wind polished pebble from Trysull. Made from mudstone which has been polished to form a smooth surface by wind blown sand grains.

 

From the collection at Wolverhampton Art Gallery

 

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Fossil reptile shell - Chelonia longiceps (Geology Temp 27) by Black Country Museums

A fossil shell from a reptile which is part of the turtle and tortoise family. This is known as Chelonia longiceps.

 

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Gypidula galeata brachiopod GL258 by Black Country Museums

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Wind polished pebble (Geology Temp 19) by Black Country Museums

A wind polished pebble from Trysull. Made from mudstone which has been polished to form a smooth surface by wind blown sand grains.

 

From the collection at Wolverhampton Art Gallery.

 

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A Eurypterid sp. or Sea Scorpion G000509 by Black Country Museums

This sea scorpion is a close reletive to the modern horseshoe crab.

 

Collected from Ludlow, Shropshire, UK.

 

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Fossilised frond from a seed fern, Alethopteris, GL1339 by Black Country Museums

Part of a fossil pteridosperm plant called Alethopteris sp. which is approximatley 310 million years old.

 

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Crinoid calyx plate 015276 by Black Country Museums

A very well preserved calyx plate from a Silurian crinoid collected at the Wrens Nest, Dudley, West Midlands, UK.

 

This is 425 million years old.

 

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Dalmanites myops 000158 by Black Country Museums

You can clearly see the compound eyes of this Silurian arthropod.

These eyes are called "Schizochroal" eyes.

 

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Fossilised plant, Lycopdiales Lepidodenron, 004751 by Black Country Museums

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Nautiloid, Cenoceras clauses GL12199 by Black Country Museums

From the Sauzei Beds, Middle Inferior Oolite of Sherborne, Dorset, UK

 

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Fossilised wood with worm holes, 005510 by Black Country Museums

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Fossilised worm burrows called Anthrophycus in ironstone, 014063 by Black Country Museums

Collected at Dudley, West Midlands, UK.

 

Found in coal measures which are around 315 million years, in the Carboniferous Period.

 

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Fossil Mammut molar (Geology Temp 11) by Black Country Museums

A well preserved Mummut tooth. This is a large molar which was used to chew on vegetation.

 

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Trilobite fossil called Sphaeroxochus sp., 000830 by Black Country Museums

From the Dudley limestones, West Midlands,

UK.

 

From the Silurian Period, 425 million years ago.

 

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Trilobite fossil, Dalmanites myops, GL1882.1 by Black Country Museums

This was collected at Malvern, Worcestershire, UK.

 

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Septarian Nodule, 014893 by Black Country Museums

A spherical nodule with mineralisation infilling the cracks between the matrix

 

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Rugose coral called Palaeocyclades, 003661 by Black Country Museums

Collected at Dudley, West Midlands, UK.

 

From 425 million years ago during the Silurian Period.

 

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Ogyginus corndensis, 000594 by Black Country Museums

An Ordovician trilobite from Powys, Wales approximatly 475 million years old

 

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Trilobite fossil, Trimerus delphinocephalus GL621 by Black Country Museums

Collected in Dudley, West Midlands.

 

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Brachiopod called Gypidula full of pink calcite 002094 by Black Country Museums

From Wenlock Edge, Shropshire.

Silurian Period

 

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Azurite and Malachite (Copper Ore) 007180 by Black Country Museums

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Iron Pyrite a.k.a. Fool's Gold, 006215 by Black Country Museums

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Fossil rugose coral called Kodonophyllum truncatum GL384 by Black Country Museums

425 Million years old

 

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Acidaspis sp. 000041 by Black Country Museums

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