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This impressive fossil was discovered in 2003 by local fisherman Nick Collard whilst fishing in the Bridgwater Bay National Nature Reserve. The plesiosaur had swam in the local seas 185 million years ago during the Jurassic era. It is rare to find such a complete skeleton and permission was granted to excavate it. It is currently on show in the Museum of Somerset in Taunton.
Fossil Winged Seed of a Saopberry tree (Deviacer wolfei). This specimen is from the Parachute Creek Member of the Green River Formation, a laminated limestone precipitated from calcium-rich waters. The limestone is interbedded with many thin layers of volcanic ash and mudstone. The unit is of Eocene age, about 45 million years old. Douglas Pass. Garfield Co., Colo.
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Orthoceras fossils from an outcrop at Neptuni Acrar near Byxelkrok on Öland, Sweden. Orthoceras is a cephalopod with a straight shell that lived in the Ordovician era, about 450 million years ago. Such elongated, asymmetric objects tend to orient themselves in the hydrodynamically most stable position and therefore indicate paleocurrent directions. The statistical analysis of cephalopod orientations at Neptuni Acrar reveals a significant southerly paleocurrent direction, which is in agreement with the paleogeographic reconstructions.
View of sand dunes and sagebrush at Fossil Lake, looking southeast toward the Christmas Valley San Dunes, Feb. 21, 2017, by Greg Shine, BLM.
The Fossil Lake Area of Critical Environmental Concern includes the dry lake bed of Fossil Lake, once the bottom of an ancient lake more than 200 feet deep, and an area that - since 1877 - continues to be an important location for scientific discovery.
Over more than 100 years, paleontologists identified over 23 species of mammals, 74 species of birds, 6 species of fish, and 6 species of mollusk from fossils unearthed here.
Some species are extinct, such as the mammoth, Dire wolf, giant beaver, and a large species of eagle. Others, such as the Tui chub, rabbit, ground squirrel, salmon, and prairie dog, exist here or in other parts of North America.
These fossils range in age from about 10,000 years old, to as much as 400,000 years old.
Each year, new species continue to be unearthed by research groups at Fossil Lake.
Collecting fossils is strictly prohibited at the site, and the entire area is closed to off-highway vehicle use to protect the fragile fossils located there. Access to this special area is limited to walk-in traffic only.
Contact:
Bureau of Land Management
Lakeview District
1301 South G Street
Lakeview, OR 97630
541-947-2177
BLM_OR_LV_Mailbox@blm.gov
Ammonites are perhaps the most widely known fossil, possessing the typically ribbed spiral-form shell as pictured. These creatures lived in the seas between 240 - 65 million years ago, when they became extinct along with the dinosaurs.
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April 13, 2019
Fossil Hunting in Hop Brook Ramanessin Greenway trails.
Ramanessin Brook
Holmdel, New Jersey
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This was found in a bucket of rocks(for sampling,) taken from one of my father's claims in 1998 in northern Arizona. Until I saw it magnified, I had thought it to be eggs, but it appears to be some kind of clams.
View of Fossil Lake, looking east toward a snowstorm over the Christmas Valley Sand Dunes and Lost Forest, Feb. 21, 2017, by Greg Shine, BLM.
The Fossil Lake Area of Critical Environmental Concern includes the dry lake bed of Fossil Lake, once the bottom of an ancient lake more than 200 feet deep, and an area that - since 1877 - continues to be an important location for scientific discovery.
Over more than 100 years, paleontologists identified over 23 species of mammals, 74 species of birds, 6 species of fish, and 6 species of mollusk from fossils unearthed here.
Some species are extinct, such as the mammoth, Dire wolf, giant beaver, and a large species of eagle. Others, such as the Tui chub, rabbit, ground squirrel, salmon, and prairie dog, exist here or in other parts of North America.
These fossils range in age from about 10,000 years old, to as much as 400,000 years old.
Each year, new species continue to be unearthed by research groups at Fossil Lake.
Collecting fossils is strictly prohibited at the site, and the entire area is closed to off-highway vehicle use to protect the fragile fossils located there. Access to this special area is limited to walk-in traffic only.
Contact:
Bureau of Land Management
Lakeview District
1301 South G Street
Lakeview, OR 97630
541-947-2177
BLM_OR_LV_Mailbox@blm.gov
A detail shot of a glass project I am working on using the Fossil Vitra technique. I used real pressed plant material to transfer powdered glass to glass sheets, leaving a beautiful pattern and texture. It's only half-finished, but it was too pretty not to take a quick picture of!
This is the second lake of what forms Fossil Lake, it is less visited than the first one and is far less exposed harbouring pockets of subalpine rainforest.
Fossil coral head, Hexagonaria percarinata, of Middle Devonian age (approx. 350,000,000 years old). Alpena Limestone, Michigan. This is a top view of the coral, a single coral animal occupied each hexagonal section.
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Fossil Creek seems to appear out of nowhere, gushing 20,000 gallons a minute out of a series of springs at the bottom of a 1,600 foot deep canyon. Over the years these calcium laden waters have laid down huge deposits of a type of limestone called travertine. That rock-like substance encases whatever happens to fall into the streambed, forming the fossils for which the area is named. Fossil Creek is one of two "Wild and Scenic" rivers in Arizona. This special designation was achieved when the Irving power plant was decommissioned, and removal of flume and dam on the creek allowed this magnificent creek to once again flow freely through Arizona's arid landscape.
Most people come to Fossil Creek to sunbathe, wade, hike and birdwatch. It's also a great place to take photographs. The lushness of the riparian area strikes a sharp contrast to the brittle desert that surrounds it. Increasing popularity has led to the Coconino and Tonto National Forests to implement a parking permit reservation system in 2016. Reserved parking permits give visitors the peace of mind knowing they'll have a spot waiting for them in this remote location. Many visitors drive two or three hours to get to the creek. The final descent to the creek at the bottom of a canyon is on an extremely rough, rocky jeep road.
Learn more about visiting Fossil Creek, Fossil Springs Wilderness, and the Coconino National Forest. Credit: USFS Coconino National Forest.
View of sand dunes and sagebrush at Fossil Lake, Feb. 21, 2017, by Greg Shine, BLM.
The Fossil Lake Area of Critical Environmental Concern includes the dry lake bed of Fossil Lake, once the bottom of an ancient lake more than 200 feet deep, and an area that - since 1877 - continues to be an important location for scientific discovery.
Over more than 100 years, paleontologists identified over 23 species of mammals, 74 species of birds, 6 species of fish, and 6 species of mollusk from fossils unearthed here.
Some species are extinct, such as the mammoth, Dire wolf, giant beaver, and a large species of eagle. Others, such as the Tui chub, rabbit, ground squirrel, salmon, and prairie dog, exist here or in other parts of North America.
These fossils range in age from about 10,000 years old, to as much as 400,000 years old.
Each year, new species continue to be unearthed by research groups at Fossil Lake.
Collecting fossils is strictly prohibited at the site, and the entire area is closed to off-highway vehicle use to protect the fragile fossils located there. Access to this special area is limited to walk-in traffic only.
Contact:
Bureau of Land Management
Lakeview District
1301 South G Street
Lakeview, OR 97630
541-947-2177
BLM_OR_LV_Mailbox@blm.gov
View of Fossil Lake, looking east toward a snowstorm over the Christmas Valley Sand Dunes and Lost Forest, Feb. 21, 2017, by Greg Shine, BLM.
The Fossil Lake Area of Critical Environmental Concern includes the dry lake bed of Fossil Lake, once the bottom of an ancient lake more than 200 feet deep, and an area that - since 1877 - continues to be an important location for scientific discovery.
Over more than 100 years, paleontologists identified over 23 species of mammals, 74 species of birds, 6 species of fish, and 6 species of mollusk from fossils unearthed here.
Some species are extinct, such as the mammoth, Dire wolf, giant beaver, and a large species of eagle. Others, such as the Tui chub, rabbit, ground squirrel, salmon, and prairie dog, exist here or in other parts of North America.
These fossils range in age from about 10,000 years old, to as much as 400,000 years old.
Each year, new species continue to be unearthed by research groups at Fossil Lake.
Collecting fossils is strictly prohibited at the site, and the entire area is closed to off-highway vehicle use to protect the fragile fossils located there. Access to this special area is limited to walk-in traffic only.
Contact:
Bureau of Land Management
Lakeview District
1301 South G Street
Lakeview, OR 97630
541-947-2177
BLM_OR_LV_Mailbox@blm.gov
Craigleith Provincial Park is located on beautiful Georgian Bay. 12 000 years ago the area that we know as Craigleth was covered under 65 meters of water from retreating glacial ice, and remained that way until 1 000 years ago when the lake receded to its present levels. The area was first visited in the mid 1600’s and eventually settled for a time by French Jesuit missionaries. In 1842 the areas first European settlers, the Lunan family, as well as the Martins, Flemings and Campbell arrived and quarried stone from nearby Craigleith.
The fossilized remains of trilobites -- an extinct marine animal -- in the exposed bedrock are the prime attraction of Craigleith. Most of the fossils date back to 450 million years ago when the waters of Georgian Bay were warm, shallow and full of salt. These small animals are called invertebrate because they do not have backbones. The rich organic soils made for excellent feeding grounds for the small sea creatures. Of intense interest to paleontologists, Craigleith is one of few places in southern Ontario where the 450 -million-year-old Blue Mountain shale has been exposed.
Fossil ferns just photographed .
They are so fragile that they can rub off the stone leaving a feint impression
Fossil tree, species Sigillaria, from the Carboniferous period. About 320 million years old. Found in a quarry near Stanhope, County Durham, in 1913 and brought to Stanhope churchyard.
Three fossils from my collection mounted (in photoshop) onto textures provided by Mayangs Free Textures at www.mayang.com/textures/
This photo was taken next to a museum in Lyme Regis, their not real fossils but I thought it looked good.
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