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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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Dioptase 007032 by Black Country Museums

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Fossilised coral called Halysites, 008489 by Black Country Museums

Halysites is more commonly known as 'chain coral'

 

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A complete rolled Acaste downingiae trilobite 015274 by Black Country Museums

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Ammonite, Ancycloceratidae, 012103 by Black Country Museums

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Gypsum crystals, 006002 by Black Country Museums

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A fossil ammonite GL1546 by Black Country Museums

An Ammonite sp. from Lyme Regis.

 

This specimen is from the Dr John Fraser Collection at Wolverhampton Art Gallery.

 

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Coprolite 015624A and 015624B by Black Country Museums

Fossilized poo!

 

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Gypsum crystals, G007358 by Black Country Museums

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Fossilised fish, 008519 by Black Country Museums

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Agate, 006416 by Black Country Museums

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A superb example of a Leptaena depressa brachiopod 015351 by Black Country Museums

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Pinnularia capillacea, 004014 by Black Country Museums

This Pinnularia capillacea grew in the swamps of Tipton in the Black Country over 310 million years ago

 

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An unidentified fossil - possibly a crinoid holdfast 015464 by Black Country Museums

From the Wrens Nest, Dudley, West Midlands, UK.

 

From the Silurian Period, 425 million years ago.

 

Can anybody offer any suggestions to help identify this specimen?

 

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Quartz, Tiger's Eye; 006430 by Black Country Museums

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Fossil bivalve called Gryphaea mcCullochii gl2055 by Black Country Museums

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Dioptase; 007032 by Black Country Museums

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Ptychodus sp. 008582 by Black Country Museums

A fish scale in Cretaceous limestone from Kent

 

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Quartz, Citrine 007168 by Black Country Museums

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Pygidium of a Bumastus barriensis trilobite 015329 by Black Country Museums

This is the fossil tail of a trilobite from the Silurian Period approximatley 425 million years ago.

 

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Pyrite concretion 006216 by Black Country Museums

A pyrite concretion from the collections at Dudley Museum & Art Gallery

 

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Serpentinite 015621 by Black Country Museums

Serpentinite from the Lizard, Cornwall.

 

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A graptolite from Dobb's Lynn. 015661 by Black Country Museums

Charles Lapworth collected graptolites from this site in Dumfries and Galloway and used them to provide evidence for evolution.

 

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Amberleya sp. GL2674 by Black Country Museums

A cut and polished internal view of a gastropod (snail)

 

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Malachite, 006829 by Black Country Museums

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An extremely rare segmented Analid worm 015590B 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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Laminated sandstone. 015641 by Black Country Museums

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Lepidolite Mica 014878 by Black Country Museums

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Fluorite, Blue John; 006751 by Black Country Museums

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Native Copper; 006018 by Black Country Museums

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Mica, 014877 by Black Country Museums

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Halite 014881 by Black Country Museums

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Baryte and Calcite 007408 by Black Country Museums

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Flourite 007174 by Black Country Museums

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Pyrite on Fluorite & marcasite 006782 by Black Country Museums

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Flourite, Galena and Chalcopyrite 006808 by Black Country Museums

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Hemimorphite from Mexico 007173 by Black Country Museums

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Quartz and Beryl 007154 by Black Country Museums

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Hemimorphite from Mexico 007173 by Black Country Museums

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Serpentine from Cornwall 015608 by Black Country Museums

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Willemite 007061 by Black Country Museums

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Blue John (Flourite) 006751 by Black Country Museums

From the Blue John Castleton Mine, Derbyshire

 

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Rose Quartz and Beryl 007154 by Black Country Museums

From the USA

 

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Ankerite/Calcite from South Wales 006927 by Black Country Museums

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Nautiloid, Gomphoceras ellipticum GL560 by Black Country Museums

Fossil cephalopod Gomphoceras ellipticum from from Ludlow in the West Midlands.

 

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Barytes, Barium Sulphate mineral specimen, 007394 by Black Country Museums

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Labradorite 007152 by Black Country Museums

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Cassiterite 006530 by Black Country Museums

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Garnet 006727 by Black Country Museums

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