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This is a replica of a famous fossil showing a protoceratops locked in mortal combat with a velociraptor. It was photographed at the Denver Gem and Mineral Show |
This is also a replica of a famous fossil. It is one of the first archaeopterex fossils and is known as the Berlin Specimen. The original was found in Germany in 1874. It was photographed on display at UCMP. |
This is the skull of a duckbill dinosaur or hadrasaur. It was phtographed at the Dinosaur Discovery Center, Woodland Park, Colorado. |
Hadrosaur Eggs, China Photographed at the Roynon Museum, Escondido,CA
This matrix holds the skeleton of Bambiraptor. It was phtographed at the Dinosaur Discovery Center, Woodland Park, Colorado. |
This cute little bag of bones is a velociraptor. I stands about waist high. It was phtographed at the Dinosaur Discovery Center, Woodland Park, Colorado. |
A complete mosasaur skeleton. This fossil was about 20 feet long. It was photographed at the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show. |
Another Mosasaur skeleton from the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show 2019.
An early fish fossil. Ostracod. Photographed in The Gallery of Paleontology in The National Museum of Natural History, Paris, France.
It may not look like much here but this fish fossil from the Denver Museum of Nature and Science is over 8 feet long. |
Fish fossil phareodus testis from theGreen River formation, Wyoming
This tooth is from a cave bear, Ursus spelaeus. The animal lived during the ice age of the Pleistocene in what is now Romania. |
A glyptodont, an armadillo like mammal from the French National Museum's Gallery of Paleontology and Comparative Anatomy.
This is a replica of the famous Lucy, the first Australopithicene fossil discovered. This photo was taken at The Gallery of Paleontology in The National Museum of Natural History, Paris, France. The original is in Ethiopia but not on display..
Here are 2 trilobites called Flexicalymene retorsa. They are both enrolled and facing each other. These are from Ordovician rock. They were found in Highland County, Ohio. |
Euryipterid- sea scorpion
Perisphinctes Ammonite from Madagascar.
Heteromorph Ammonite from Morocco.
This is the same extinct bryozoan as the one above. Take a close look at the upper spirals. Some of the lacy structure is visible near the top. The lattice structure is where the brozoans lived in this species. |
This is the "head" of a blasted called Pentremites pyriformis. It is about 325 million years old. From the upper Mississippian this fossil was found in Crawford County, Indiana. |
This fossil is called Prorichtofenia permiana . It is an inarticulate brachiopod from the Permian Period. It was found in the Glass Mountains, West Texas. Inarticulate means that the valves did not have a hinge to connect them but were held together with muscle. |
Fossil Gastropod Platyostoma |
This graptolite fossil is the species Araneograptus murrayi. It is from Morocco. |
Ginko Leaf, Paleocene from North Dakota
Palm Frond from the Green River Formation, Wyoming.
Metasequoia leaf fossil, Oligocene, from Montana.
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