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This is a small fossil found at the "Brickyard" (Rattlesnake Hill) in Newcastle. I didn't see any rattlesnakes that day, but they probably saw me. North Texas is a great place to hunt for fossils, especially along road cut embankments and rocky riverbeds. This one was wrapped in a few layers of paper towel and tucked into a pocket of my small camera bag. I usually carry some soft wrapping material with me on my day hikes, and make sure there's empty space in my bag to accommodate small fossils or bits of petrified wood found along the way.
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This fossil shell is about the size of a dinner plate. I'm not sure where it's from, my father picked it up on one of his field trips, and it's possibly from somewhere in West Virgina or Virginia.If anyone knows of a locality famous for these, let me know...
This Year Make It... Fossil Dude Ranch in Spacious Arizona
2001 Fossil Dude Ranch Watch Box Tin - my personal favorite of a small collection of tin boxes.
YELL-165706 (pictured) and YELL-165715: Many times when fossils are collected they are only casts of the specimen, such as these pictures of a few nearly complete Ptychopariid trilobite (YELL-165706 and YELL-165715) casts. As an organism becomes buried in sediment, its body decays, leaves an open space in the shape of the animal and then gets filled in with sediment creating an external cast of the organism. If an open space or cavity remains after the animal is buried and becomes fossilized, then it is referred to as a mold.
Collecting any natural resources, including rocks and fossils, is illegal in Yellowstone.
Photo by Megan Norr;
March 2016;
Catalog #20799d;
Original #USNM_165706
I couldn't resist trying one right away. It's so cool to see my design in tangible form like this.
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Chris found this fossil snail along the shore of Lake Michigan near the Indiana Dunes. It's about 4 inches in diameter but unfortunately, it's on a rock that weighs more than a car.
My girlfriend gave me this watch since 2006..i even used this as my everyday watch.This particular watch fell off to the swiming pool and i almost gave up on finding it that afternoon..but because of its sentimental value to me i really tried to search for it by stepping on every side of the pool.good thing i stepped on it..the watch was submerged for almost 2 hours under the swimming pool...I could say that fossil is a very good brand..some may have had bad experience from fossil models but mine is great..i recommend this because of its reliability and durability
Caution! This is a 2-dimensional image taken with my craptastic cell phone camera.
I found a good place to go fossil hunting. I'm not sure what the name is of this old plant, but this example was one of the best preserved I have ever seen of them.
Fossil stromatolites in a block of Bass Limestone, in Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona. (NPS Photo by Cassi Knight, Paleontology Guest Scientist)
Fossil-fish drawing (8 x 15 cm.)
Repository: Ernst Mayr Library, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
Call number: bfAg 168.60.7e
Other folks make sand castles, we make sand fossils. Here is my daughter's 2014 creation.
(Flickr friends, in an attempt to catch up on my postings, I will be posting 4 shots a day until I catch up. Bear with me.)
(1) Daguerre, collection de fossiles, daguerréotype, 1839 (coll. CNAM). (2) Couverture du National Geographic, mai 2009, mammouth congelé.
Fossil Reticulated Beetle (Cupedidae fam.) in the Green River Formation. This specimen lived during Eocene time, about 50 million years ago. The original color pattern is preserved on the elytra. Fossil Butte National Monument. Near Kemmerer, Lincoln Co., Wyo.
The forces of nature split this rock after I had put it in my garden border, revealing the bright, unweathered interior of the rock. There are also a couple of fossil shells on this otherwise relatively nondescript rock.
First cutting of the new agate find of what I think is the best out of the pile. As you can see there are fractures and voids so tghe material will require work to cut out the good sections.
Paleontology GIP Kelly Hattori found a fossil leaf within a slab of mudstone - Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, Colorado. (NPS Photo by Kelly Hattori, GIP)
Trilobites appeared suddenly in some of the earliest rocks of the fossil record, with no intermediate ancestors. This sudden appearance of a great variety of advanced, fully developed creatures is called the Cambrian Explosion. Trilobites are especially interesting because they have complex eyes, which would need a lot of evolutionary progression. However, there is no evidence of any evolution leading up to the Cambrian Explosion, and that is a serious dilemma for evolutionists.
Trilobites are now thought to be extinct, although it is possible that similar creatures could still exist in unexplored parts of deep oceans.
Rapid formation of strata - latest evidence:
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See fossil of a crab unchanged after many millions of years:
www.flickr.com/photos/101536517@N06/12702046604/in/set-72...
Fossil museum: www.flickr.com/photos/101536517@N06/sets/72157641367196613/
GIP Julie Rozen cleaning fossils with a Junior Ranger at Fossil Butte National Monument, Wyoming. (NPS Photo by Julie Rozen, GIP)ulie Rozen, GIP)
Ali explaining how much of the Midwest was once covered by a shallow sea more than 300 million years ago! Hence, seashell fossils.
Detail of a fossil found near Dunhampstead in Worcestershire. Found on the surface of a grassy field, on the ridge os Permian/Rhaetic beds. Each button c 1cm diameter. Rock is shiny, brittle, seems compacted, varies in colour between pale fawn to pinkish peach, several pieces like this found. From the same field as the reddish sandstone containing Lycopod stems. www.flickr.com/photos/84265607@N00/1769806587/
Detail of previous pic
Help with identification much appreciated.
Fossil Trout Perch (Amphiplaga brachyptera) in the Green River Formation. These fish,which grew to 6 in., lived during Eocene time, about 50 million years ago. Despite the name, they are neither trout nor perch. Fossil Butte National Monument. Near Kemmerer, Lincoln Co., Wyo.
Jennifer Trout (Paleontology GIP) identifying fossil areas on the Permian Reef Trail for a monitoring guide for park staff at Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas. (NPS Photo by Jennifer Trout, GIP)