Showing posts with label ammonite. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ammonite. Show all posts
Friday, 2 May 2025

AINOCERAS: VANCOUVER ISLAND HETEROMORPH

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A wee baby deep chocolate Ainoceras sp. heteromorph ammonite from Vancouver Island. This adorable corkscrew-shaped ammonite is an extinct m...
Monday, 31 March 2025

MASSIVE AMMONITE FROM MADAGASCAR

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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, 23 March 2025

MASSIVE FOSSIL AMMONITE NEAR 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...
Friday, 7 March 2025

MEMEKAY JURASSIC AMMONITES OF VANCOUVER ISLAND

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Coroniceras sp. from Sayward, British Columbia This yummy Lower Jurassic ammonite with the creamy dark chocolate colouring is from an all bu...
Saturday, 1 March 2025

FRACTAL BUILDING: AMMONITES

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Argonauticeras besairei , Collection of José Juárez Ruiz. An exceptional example of fractal building of an ammonite septum, in this clyt...
Tuesday, 25 February 2025

BEAUTIFUL QUENSTEDTOCERAS AMMONITE 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 she...
Thursday, 13 February 2025

AINOCERAS: A CUTE AS YOU PLEASE HETEROMORPH FROM VANCOUVER ISLAND

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A wee baby deep chocolate Ainoceras sp. heteromorph ammonite from Vancouver Island. This adorable corkscrew-shaped ammonite is an extinct m...
Tuesday, 24 December 2024

LOWER LIAS LYTOCERAS

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A superbly prepped and extremely rare Lytoceras (Suess, 1865) ammonite found as a green ammonite nodule by Matt Cape in the Lower Lias of D...
Sunday, 17 November 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...
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...