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
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
Vertebrate cololites Mammut americanum
Ovibos moschatus Early Elephants
HOMINIDS
PLANTS