Showing posts with label ammonite. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ammonite. Show all posts
Tuesday, 29 October 2024

SAKARA MADAGASGAR: OXFORDIAN OUTCROPS

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This big beastie is a superb specimen of the ammonite Lobolytoceras costellatum showing the intricate fractal pattern of its septa.  This l...
Sunday, 22 September 2024

ANAHOPLITES PLANUS OF VILLEMOYENNE QUARRY

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A beautiful specimen of the ammonite, Anahoplites planus (Mantell, 1822) from Albian deposits in Villemoyenne Quarry, Courcelles, Aube, nor...
Friday, 16 August 2024

AMMONITE FROM FOLKSTONE

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Sheer beauty — a beautiful Euhoplites ammonite from Folkstone, UK. I've been really enjoying looking at all oil-in-water colouring and ...
Thursday, 18 July 2024

GIGANTIC FOSSIL AMMONITE OF FERNIE

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Titanites occidentalis , Fernie Ammonite The Fernie ammonite, Titanites occidentalis , from outcrops on Coal Mountain near Fernie, British C...
Sunday, 7 July 2024

AMMONITE TIME KEEPERS

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Argonauticeras besairei , José Juárez Ruiz An exceptional example of the fractal building of an ammonite septum, in this clytoceratid Argona...
Thursday, 30 May 2024

THE GIANT FOSSIL AMMONITE OF FERNIE, BRITISH COLUMBIA

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Titanites occidentalis , Fernie Ammonite The Fernie ammonite, Titanites occidentalis , from outcrops on Coal Mountain near Fernie, British C...
Monday, 6 May 2024

QUENSTEDTOCERAS WITH PATHOLOGY

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What you are seeing here is a protuberance extruding from the venter of Quenstedtoceras cf. leachi (Sowerby). It is a pathology in the shel...
Sunday, 28 April 2024

UPPER CRETACEOUS MOTORCROSS SITE: VANCOUVER ISLAND

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Steller's Jay, Cyanocitta stelleri One of the classic Vancouver Island fossil localities is the Santonian-Maastrichtian, Upper Creta...
Saturday, 20 April 2024

INKY BEAUTY: AMMONITE OF PONGO DE MANSERICHE

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This inky beauty is Prolyelliceras ulrichi (Knechtel, 1947) a fast-moving nektonic carnivorous ammonite from Cretaceous lithified, black, c...
Tuesday, 16 April 2024

BACK IN THE USSR: BEADANTICERAS OF THE NORTHERN CAUCASUS

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This lovely oil in water coloured ammonite is the beauty Beudanticeras sp. from the Lower Cretaceous (Upper Aptian), Krasnodar region, Nor...
Wednesday, 10 April 2024

PHYLLOCERAS VELLEDAE OF MADAGASCAR

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This specimen of Phylloceras velledae (Michelin) has a shell with a small umbilicus, arched, acute venter, and at some growth stage, falco...
Monday, 25 March 2024

DESMOCERAS OF MAHAJANGA

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This lovely dark rust chunky monkey is the ammonite Desmoceras ( Pseudouhligella ) latidorsatum from the Lower Cretaceous, Lower Albian, Do...
Monday, 18 March 2024

JAPANESE CORKSCREW AMMONITE: HYPHANTOCERAS ORIENTALE

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A stunning example of the heteromorph ammonite, Hyphantoceras orientale macroconch. This beauty corresponds to 'Morphotype C' fro...
Tuesday, 5 March 2024

MEET FERGUSONITES HENDERSONAE: HETTANGIAN AMMONITE

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Fergusonites hendersonae (Longridge, 2008) Meet Fergusonites hendersonae , a Late Hettangian (Early Jurassic) ammonite from the Taseko ...
Friday, 2 February 2024

CHAMPAGNE-ARDENNE HOPLITES

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An excellent example of the ammonite, Hoplites bennettiana  (Sowby, 1826) with a pathology. This beauty is from Albian deposits near Carri...
Thursday, 1 February 2024

AMMONITE OF THE RHÔNE

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An exquisite specimen of the delicately ridged ammonite, Porpoceras verticosum , from Middle Toarcian outcrops adjacent the Rhône in southea...
Saturday, 27 January 2024

OIL IN WATER BEAUTY: FOSSILS OF FOLKSTONE

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Sheer beauty — a beautiful Euhoplites ammonite from Folkstone, UK. I've been really enjoying looking at all oil-in-water colouring and ...
Monday, 22 January 2024

QUENSTEDTOCERAS WITH PATHOLOGY

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What you are seeing here is a protuberance extruding from the venter of Quenstedtoceras cf. leachi (Sowerby). It is a pathology in the shel...
Tuesday, 16 January 2024

THE GIANT FOSSIL AMMONITE OF FERNIE

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Titanites occidentalis , Fernie Ammonite The Fernie ammonite, Titanites occidentalis , from outcrops on Coal Mountain near Fernie, British C...