FOSSIL HUNTRESS

Cuticular structure in a Late Maastrichtian crab, Costacopluma mexicana , from deposits near the town of from near Paredón, Ramos Arizpe i...

A recent post of the fossils found at McAbee in the Interior of British Columbia has me thinking of March Flies. March Flies are hardy, me...

Ammonites have intricate and complex patterns on their shells called sutures. The suture patterns differ across species and tell us what tim...

A very well preserved ichthyosaur block with three distinct vertebrae and some ribs just peeking out. You can see the edges of the ribs ni...

At the entrance to the Pliensbachian-Toarcian localities at Joker Peak and Mina Peak Members of the Sunrise Formation, Nevada, USA. The ...

Triassic ammonoids, West Humboldt Mountains, Nevada, USA. This was the site of the 1905 Expedition of the University of California’s Depar...

During the last ice age, huge cats bigger than an African lion prowled Alberta, including the fearsome beast commonly known as the sabre-t...

Hiking the hills of Nevada looking for David Taylor's faunal succession based on ammonoids established for the Late Hettangian to Earl...

A large extinct bivalved arthropod, Tuzoia sinesis (Pan, 1957) from Cambrian deposits of the Balang Formation. The Balang outcrops in beau...

The impressive homeotype specimen of Eurypterus lacustris from Late Silurian deposits in New York. UCMP Berkeley's paleontological col...

An Esmeraldina roweii multi-block of lovely trilobites from the Lower Lower Cambrian Poleta Formation of Esmeralda County, near Goldfield...

The American Mastodon, Mammut americanum . Mastodons resemble elephants, but are more like elephant cousins. A second species, Mammut pa...

Searching for bedrock in outcrops of the West Humboldt Mountains, Nevada. Perhaps the most famous and important locality for the Middle Tr...

Paper clams or "flat clams" were widespread in the Triassic. They often dominate the rocks in which they are found, as in these ...

This well-preserved partial ichthyosaur was found in the Blue Lias shales by Lewis Winchester-Ellis in 2018. The vertebrae you see are fro...

A beautiful specimen of the ammonite, Anahoplites planus (Mantell, 1822) from Albian deposits in Courcelles-sur-Voire, Aube, north-centra...

This toothy beauty is an elasmosaur, a large marine reptile now housed in the Courtenay and District Museum on Vancouver Island. This spec...

Looking out over the Middle Triassic exposures of the Humboldt Mountain Range. These hills were the site of the 1905 Expedition of the U...

Dinosaur bone / Kaskapau Formation Bones from a variety of dinosaurs have been found in the Tumbler Ridge area of British Columbia. He...

A beautiful block of marine fossils found in bedrock outcrops of the West Humboldt Mountains, Nevada. Perhaps the most famous and importan...

An amazing mummified Red tilefish, Branchiostegus japonicus (Houttuyn, 1782) from Holocene deposits near Shizuoka, Japan. This specimen s...

The islands of the Aegean are peaks of underwater mountains that extend out from the mainland.  Crete is the last of this range and boasts...

These lovelies are Coleman shrimp, Periclimenes colemani . They are generally found in mating pairs atop the exquisitely beautiful but fri...

This braw fellow is Ceratiocaris papilio (Salter in Murchison, 1859) a Pod Shrimp from the Silurian mudstones of the Kip Burn Formation in...

Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park encompasses 1,540 acres. The elevation ranges from 6,840 feet to a high point of 7,880 feet. The hillsides i...

Phylloceras consanguineum (Gemmellaro 1876) a fast-moving carnivorous ammonite from Late Jurassic (Middle Oxfordian) deposits near Sokoja,...

We soak up the breathtaking views after a long morning's paddle. The east and south sides of our route are bound by the imposing white...

There is tremendously robust suturing on this lovely ammonite, Holcophylloceras mediterraneum, (Neumayr 1871) from Late Jurassic (Oxfordia...

March Flies are hardy, medium-sized flies in the Order Diptera, with a body length ranging from 4.0 to 10.0 mm. This species is one of the...