FOSSIL HUNTRESS

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Thursday, 30 April 2020

HOPLOSCAPHITES

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This sweet beauty with lovely oil in water colouring is a Hoploscaphites nebrascensis (Owen, 1852) macroconch. This is the female form of...
Wednesday, 29 April 2020

LATE JURASSIC PHYLLOCERAS

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This lovely creamy beauty is Phylloceras consanguineum (Gemmellaro 1876) a fast-moving carnivorous ammonite from Late Jurassic (Middle Oxfo...
Tuesday, 28 April 2020

HYPHANTOCERAS OF JAPAN

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A stunning example of the heteromorph ammonite, Hyphantoceras orientale macroconch. This beauty corresponds to 'Morphotype C' fro...
Monday, 27 April 2020

MAMMOTH TUSK: WRANGEL ISLAND

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Mammoth Tusk, Wrangel Island, Arctic Ocean This tusk is from Mammutus primigenius , our beloved Woolly Mammoths, from Wrangel Island in the ...
Sunday, 26 April 2020

HETEROMORPH AMMONITES

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Heteromorph Ammonites, Sowerby 1837 Ammonite shells have been collected by people for millennia. These ammonites are known from the Late...
Saturday, 25 April 2020

OCTOPUS: 300 MILLION YEAR OLD LINEAGE

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This lovely with her colourful body is an octopus. Like ninety-seven percent of the world's animals, she lacks a backbone. To support th...
Friday, 24 April 2020

ETHELDRED BENETT: SPONGE HUNTRESS

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Hoplites (Hoplites) bennettiana  (Sowerby, 1826) A beautiful example of the ammonite, Hoplites (Hoplites) bennettiana (Sowerby, 1826),...
Thursday, 23 April 2020

EXPLORING THE OLYMPIC PENINSULA

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One of the most beautiful in the Pacific Northwest is the Olympic Peninsula from Port Angeles to Neah Bay. This stretch of coastline is ...
Wednesday, 22 April 2020

CRINOIDS: LILIES OF THE SEA

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This lovely specimen is Zeacrinites magnoliaeformis , an Upper Mississippian-Chesterian crinoid found by Keith Metts in the Glen Dean For...
Tuesday, 21 April 2020

GASTROPOD OF THE ITALIAN PENINSULA

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A beautiful example of two water-worn specimens of the gastropod Persististrombus latus (Gmelin, 1791) captured after a storm captured by...
Monday, 20 April 2020

NUMMULITES OF THE PYRAMIDS

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Built to endure the tests of time, the pyramids of Giza were built of limestone, granite, basalt, gypsum (mortar), and baked mud bricks qu...
Sunday, 19 April 2020

EGYPT: SINAI PENINSULA

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Much of Egypt's history is carved in her rock. We think of Egypt as old, with remarkable human history, but the land that formed this ...
Friday, 17 April 2020

CETACEANS OF WASHINGTON STATE

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Oligocene Fossil Whale Vertebrae, Olympic Peninsula These lovely water-worn specimens are difficult to ID to species with certainty but ...
Thursday, 16 April 2020

WASHINGTON STATE PALEONTOLOGY

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North Cascades National Park, Washington State, USA Over vast expanses of time, powerful tectonic forces have massaged the western edg...
Wednesday, 15 April 2020

CLALLAM BAY MARINE FAUNA

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Panopea abrupt (Conrad, 1894) This lovely large fossil bivalve is Panopea abrupta (Conrad, 1849) an extinct species of marine mollusc i...
Tuesday, 14 April 2020

FOSSIL FAUNAS OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST

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Vertipecten fucanus (Dall, 1898), Clallam Formation, WA Some water-worn samples of the fossil bivalve Vertipecten fucanus from Lower M...
Monday, 13 April 2020

QUALICUM BEACH

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Qualicum Beach, a quaint community just 47 km or 30 minutes north of Nanaimo. Offering everything the year-round traveller could want. W...
Sunday, 12 April 2020

MOAI OF EASTER ISLAND

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Carved Volcanic Moai Statues of Easter Island Rapa Nui or Easter Island is a volcanic island and special territory of Chile in the south...
Thursday, 9 April 2020

PACHYDISCUS SUCHIAENSIS

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Pachydiscus suchiaensis The late Cretaceous ammonite Pachydiscus suchiaensis found in concretion amongst the 72 million-year-old grey s...
Saturday, 4 April 2020

ALBERTONECTES OF THE WESTERN INTERIOR SEAWAY

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Albertonectes vanderveldei During the Cretaceous, the Western Interior Seaway split North America into two landmasses. Part of the...
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