COOL FOSSILS
Video of a JSJ presentation: “Weird Fossils and Fossil
Oddities”
(posted on youtube in 5 parts) (originally
presented at the 44th Annual Gem, Mineral, Fossil & Jewelry Show of Greater
Cincinnati in May 2009)
BODY
FOSSILS TRACE FOSSILS
BIOGENIC PRODUCTS
GREEN
RIVER FORMATION FOSSILS (7 spp.)
MAZON CREEK LAGERSTÄTTE (8 spp.)
ALGAE
& BACTERIA
“Solenopora”
jurassica
Grypania spiralis
EDIACARAN
ORGANISMS
Dickinsonia costata
Nemiana simplex
PORIFERANS
Brooksella alternata
Brachiospongia
digitata
CNIDARIANS
Solenastrea hyades
Halysites
louisvillensis
COELOSCLERITOPHORANS
BRACHIOPODS
Platystrophia ponderosa
with geopetal structure
BRYOZOANS
BIVALVES
Opalized Cyrenopsis
Fossil scallops
Gryphaea arcuata &
Exogyra costata
GASTROPODS
Marine
snails
Cerion
watlingense
Geodized Busycon
Hexaplex
hertweckorum
CEPHALOPODS
Ammonites
Buckhorn
Lagerstätte
Ammolite Kazakhstania
colubrella
Opalized Peratobelus
belemnites
TRILOBITES
Bitten Trilobites
Ellipsocephalus
hoffii
Isotelus maximus
Peronopsis
interstricta
Drepanura premesnili
Agnostus
pisiformis
Pudoproetus
auriculatus
Gravicalymene
abbreviata
Paradoxides minor
Ogygopsis klotzi
NON-TRILOBITE ARTHROPODS
Insect in Baltic amber
Dithyrocaris
Paleolimulus
signatus
Eurypterus
remipes
Marrella splendens
Anomalocaris
canadensis
ECHINODERMS
Streptaster
vorticellatus
Xenocrinus baeri
Dendrocrinus
caduceus
Dendraster
gibbsii
Uintacrinus socialis
Furcaster
paleozoicus
Carneyella ulrichi
Dichocrinus ficus
GRAPTOLITES
Climacograptus
wilsoni
Dictyonema
crassibasale
PROBLEMATICA
Plumalina plumaria
Eldonia ludwigi
FISH
Lycoptera davidi
Carcharodon
megalodon
AMPHIBIANS
DINOSAURS
Pachycephalosaurus
wyomingensis
BIRDS
Confuciusornis
sanctus
Dinornis maximus
MAMMALS
Smilodon
Megaloceros
giganteus
Paramylodon harlani
Bison antiquus
Ursus
spelaeus
Mammuthus primigenius
Vertebrate cololites
Mammut americanum
Ovibos moschatus
Early Elephants
HOMINIDS
PLANTS