FOSSIL HUNTRESS

Gorgons or Gorgonopsia were sabre-toothed therapsids who roamed our ancient Earth from the Middle to Upper Permian — 265 to 252 million year...

A very pleasing example of the Ammonite Acanthohoplites bigoureti (Seunes, 1887). Lower Cretaceous, Upper Aptian, from a riverbed concretio...

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

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Graptolites (Graptolita) are colonial animals. The biological affinities of the graptolites have always been debatable. Originally regarded ...

A wee ichthyosaur vertebrae from Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park, Nevada, USA. This area in central Nevada is a very important locality for ou...

The type species of Sauravus, Sauravus costei , is known from Blanzy, a town in the Saône-et-Loire department of France.  This town and its ...

Chariocrinus andrae , Collection: David Appleton Crinoids are one of my favourite echinoderms. It is magical when all the elements come toge...

This exceptionally well-preserved crinoid, Delgadocrinus oportovinum , was found on October 11, 1905, by Nery Delgado during his work mapp...

Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park The Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park in central Nevada is an important locality for our understanding of the Carn...

This beautiful slab of well-preserved Triassic, Carnian, upper Tuvalian ammonoids hails limestone outcrops near the salt-mining town of Ha...

Epigymnites arthaberi (MOJS.) and Epigymnites moelleri (MOJS.) Photo: Andreas It was the Austrian geologist, Alexander Bittner, a contempora...

Hallstatt Salt Mines, Austria / Permian Salt Diapir The Hallstatt Limestone is the world's richest Triassic ammonite unit, yielding ...

 

Stunning preservation on this lovely microconch of the ammonite, Indosphinctes ( Elatmites ) aff. submutatus (Nikitin, 1881), from Jurassic...

Golden light shines on the ammonite,  Dorsoplanites dorsoplanus (Vischniakoff, 1882), Upper Jurassic, Volgian Stage, Panderi Zone. If you wa...

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Crabs are decapod crustaceans of the Phylum Arthropoda. They inhabit all the world's oceans, sandy beaches, many of our freshwater lakes...

I was thinking this week about horseshoe crabs. David Appleton shared a lovely trackway earlier this week that may very well record the an...

A lovely Pterocephalia trilobite from Upper Cambrian, Furongian strata of the McKay Group, Kootenay Rockies.  The McKay Group has been explo...

This adorable wee baby with his teeny aquatic mittens on is a eurypterid from exposures in New York, USA.  This cutie is one of my favourite...

About two dozen families of eurypterids “sea scorpions” are known from the fossil record. Although these ancient predators have a superfic...

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

A rare and very beautifully preserved Cretaceous Hadrosaur Tooth. This lovely specimen is from one of our beloved herbivorous "Duck-Bil...

If you look closely, you can see a wee jet ranger helicopter hovering over a very chilly Castle Peak in the southern Chilcotin Range, Britis...

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