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Amazing fossils -
Detective Osprey - 08-07-2018
Posting this here because fossils are literally imprints made out of rock.
These are so perfectly-preserved (except missing some parts)...
Sassafras hesperia:
Kainops invius:
Some pics I took, and made it onto Wikipedia:
RE: Amazing fossils -
Kyng - 08-11-2018
Lovely stuff
!
I once had a lovely Ammonite which I would post pictures of - but, unfortunately, I took it to school to be used as part of a prehistoric display, and never got it back. I haven't seen it in 20 years now
...
RE: Amazing fossils -
Detective Osprey - 09-14-2018
The school might still have it.
Let's not forget the
Psittacosaurus sp. (no name yet) was preserved with skin integument.
The
Pentaceratops specimen at the Sam Noble Museum of Natural History, which turned out to be a new species called
Titanoceratops:
RE: Amazing fossils -
Kyng - 09-21-2018
Doubt it, since the school closed years ago
.
Nice images, though. It's interesting how part of the skin survived on one of them: I don't see that very often!
RE: Amazing fossils -
Detective Osprey - 09-21-2018
That doesn't like somethign that would be thrown away, just saying. -shrug-
One billion year-old stromatolites, one of the oldest life forms:
This one is over 2 billion years old:
Source: Both are from Wikimedia Commons.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Stromatolites_fossils
RE: Amazing fossils -
Kyng - 09-22-2018
Wow
Following on from those, the earliest known animal fossils have just been identified. They're 558 million years old, so not quite as old as the stromatolites, but still pretty amazing:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-45588213
RE: Amazing fossils - Deleted User 35 - 09-22-2018
I've always found Archaeopteryx fossils pretty amazing, due to how well preserved they are.
RE: Amazing fossils -
Detective Osprey - 09-22-2018
(09-22-2018, 12:48 AM)Kyng Wrote: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-45588213
I love
Dickinsonia. One of the most beautiful fossils out there! Ediacaran fauna are some of my favourite creatures:
Waptia fieldensis (restoration on the right): May have fed upon Ediacaran creatures
Wikimedia Commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Waptia
Charnia masoni (restoration on the right):
Wikimedia Commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Charnia
RE: Amazing fossils -
Kyng - 09-22-2018
Wow, what on Earth is that last one?! I thought it was a leaf at first, but when I Googled it, I found it wasn't a plant....
RE: Amazing fossils -
Detective Osprey - 11-14-2021
Ammonite from Madagascar with mineralization:
Source