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)

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BODY FOSSILS      TRACE FOSSILS BIOGENIC PRODUCTS

FOSSIL PRESERVATION STYLES

(new: chalcedonized gastropods on replacement page)

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NEONTOLOGY

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GREEN  RIVER  FORMATION  FOSSILS (7 spp.)

MAZON  CREEK  LAGERSTÄTTE (8 spp.)

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ALGAE & BACTERIA

“Solenopora” jurassica Grypania spiralis

Stromatolite More stromatolites (new)

Silurian marine algae

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EDIACARAN ORGANISMS

Dickinsonia costata Nemiana simplex

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PORIFERANS

Brooksella alternata Brachiospongia digitata

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CNIDARIANS

Hexagonaria percarinata

Solenastrea hyades Halysites louisvillensis

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COELOSCLERITOPHORANS

Chancelloria eros

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BRACHIOPODS

Platystrophia ponderosa with geopetal structure

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BRYOZOANS

Bryozoan colonies

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BIVALVES

Opalized Cyrenopsis Fossil scallops

Crinkle bed

Gryphaea arcuata & Exogyra costata

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GASTROPODS

Marine snails Cerion watlingense

Geodized Busycon Hexaplex hertweckorum

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CEPHALOPODS

Ammonites Buckhorn Lagerstätte

Kazakhstania colubrella

Opalized Peratobelus belemnites

Silurian nautiloids of Ohio

Ammolite (new)

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TRILOBITES

Bitten Trilobites Ellipsocephalus hoffii

Isotelus maximus Peronopsis interstricta

Drepanura premesnili Agnostus pisiformis

Pudoproetus auriculatus Gravicalymene abbreviata

Paradoxides minor Ogygopsis klotzi

Spiny trilobites

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NON-TRILOBITE  ARTHROPODS

Insect in Baltic amber Dithyrocaris

Paleolimulus signatus Eurypterus remipes

Marrella splendens Anomalocaris canadensis

Harpactoxanthopsis

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ECHINODERMS

Streptaster vorticellatus Xenocrinus baeri

Dendrocrinus caduceus Dendraster gibbsii

Uintacrinus socialis Furcaster paleozoicus

Carneyella ulrichi Dichocrinus ficus

Promopalaeaster mutant

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GRAPTOLITES

Climacograptus wilsoni Dictyonema crassibasale

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PROBLEMATICA

Plumalina plumaria Eldonia ludwigi

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FISH

Lycoptera davidi Carcharodon megalodon

Paleozoic fish

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AMPHIBIANS

Diplocaulus magnicornis

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DINOSAURS

Theropods Sauropods

Dinosaur gastrolith

Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis

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BIRDS

Confuciusornis sanctus Dinornis maximus

Fossil bird nest Diatryma

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MAMMALS

Smilodon Megaloceros giganteus

Paramylodon harlani Bison antiquus

Ursus spelaeus Mammuthus primigenius

Vertebrate cololites Mammut americanum

Ovibos moschatus Early Elephants

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HOMINIDS

Sahelanthropus-Kenyanthropus-Australopithecus-Paranthropus-Homo

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PLANTS

Glossopteris

Paleozoic land plants

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