Fossil Coral
Cnidaria fossil (often Calcium Carbonate / CaCO3)
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Fossil Coral
Cnidaria fossil (often Calcium Carbonate / CaCO3)
Fossil Snail Shell (Embedded in Resin)
Gastropoda fossil
Fossilized Tooth
Vertebrate Fossilized Tooth (Mineralized Biogenic Material)
Megalodon Shark Tooth
Otodus megalodon
Fossilized Bone
Fossilized Vertebrate Bone (Per mineralized)
Crinoidean Fossil (Stem Fragment)
Phylum Echinodermata, Class Crinoidea
Fossil Coral
Hexagonaria / Rugosa / Scleractinia
Petrified Wood
Silicified Wood (Quartzo-feldspathic fossil wood)
Fossil Sand Dollar (Echinoidea)
Phylum Echinodermata, Class Echinoidea (likely Dendraster or Scutella)
Fossil Coral
Rugose Coral or Tabulate Coral (Phylum Cnidaria)
Fossil shell fragment, likely brachiopod or bivalve
Indeterminate fossilized carbonate shell; possibly Spiriferida (brachiopod)
Mosasaur Tooth Fossil
Mosasauridae (likely Prognathodon or Mosasaurus)
Fossilized Blastoid (Sea Bud)
Pentremites sp. (Echinodermata, Blastoidea)
Fossilized Shark Tooth (Basal Bone)
Otodus sp. (Mineralized Hydroxyapatite)
Orthoceras fossil in limestone
Orthoceras regulare (extinct nautiloid cephalopod)
Fossil tooth, possibly shark tooth
Indeterminate fossilized vertebrate tooth; likely a shark tooth (possibly *Carcharhinus* or related genus)
Spinosaurid Dinosaur Tooth
Spinosaurus aegyptiacus (fossilized)
Petrified Wood
Silicified Wood (SiO2)
Fossilized oyster or other bivalve shell
Calcitic bioclast, commonly Ostrea spp. or Exogyra spp.
Fossil shell fragment
Likely a fossilized brachiopod or bivalve; exact taxon cannot be determined from the image
Fossil coral fragment
Likely calcitic colonial coral, possibly fossilized scleractinian coral
Fossilized Echinoid
Echinoidea (likely of the order Echinoidea)
Fossilized Shark Tooth in Matrix
Otodus sp. (likely Otodus obliquus)
Petrified Tabulate Coral
Favosites (Honeycomb Coral)
Fossilized Shark Tooth (Drum Fish Tooth/Pavement Tooth)
Sparidae or Sciaenidae (Crushing plate dental fossil)
Megalodon Shark Tooth Fossil
Otodus megalodon
Fossil coral fragment (probable)
Recrystallized fossil coral, commonly scleractinian or tabulate coral; exact identification requires magnification and locality
Fossilized Coral
Rugose Coral / Hexagonaria (Fossilized calcium carbonate)
Fossilized Coral
Hexagonaria (Rugose coral) / Calcium Carbonate (CaCO3)
Fossilized shell or brachiopod
Likely a calcareous brachiopod or bivalve fossil; exact identification requires clearer detail and scale
Petrified Wood
Silicified Wood (primarily Quartz/Chalcedony, SiO2)
Fossilized bivalve shell in limestone
Calcitic fossil shell; likely an oyster or other rudist/bivalve (Bivalvia), preserved in carbonate rock
Crinoid Stem Fossil
Crinoid columnal (Class Crinoidea)
Likely vertebra fossil or bone fragment
Indeterminate fossilized vertebra; mineralized hydroxyapatite, commonly Ca₅(PO₄)₃(OH)
Ammonite Fossil
Ammonoidea (subclass)
Fossilized ammonite
Ammonoidea (likely a ribbed Jurassic–Cretaceous ammonite), replaced mainly by calcite or silica
Fossilized Shark Tooth (Fragment)
Elasmobranchii gen. et sp. indet.
Fossilized Shark Tooth (Root Portion)
Selachimorpha (partial specimen)
Rugose Coral Fossil
Order Rugosa
Goniatite Fossil
Order Goniatitida
Fossilized Crinoid Stem in Pebble
Crinoidea (Class) preserved in calcite/matrix
Fossilized Shark Tooth (Carcharocles/Otodus or Sand Tiger Shark Tooth)
Elasmobranchii (Fossilized Tooth)