Fossil Seashell
Invertebrate fossil (Bivalvia)
Category
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Fossil Seashell
Invertebrate fossil (Bivalvia)
Fossilized Tooth
Vertebrate Fossilized Tooth (Mineralized Biogenic Material)
Bivalve Fossil (Brachiopod or Scallop)
Class Bivalvia (or potentially Phylum Brachiopoda)
Fossilized tooth fragment
Likely a mammalian molar or tooth fragment; exact animal cannot be determined from the image
Fossilized shell fragment
Likely a fossil mollusk shell; exact taxon cannot be determined from the image
Large bivalve shell fossil (possibly a clam)
Fossilized bivalve; exact taxon cannot be determined from the image
Mammoth or Mastodon Tooth Fragment
Mammuthus / Mammut molar fragment
Fossilized Brachiopod
Phylum Brachiopoda
Fossilized shell or coral fragment
Indeterminate biogenic carbonate; likely calcite/aragonite (CaCO₃)
Fossiliferous shale or mudstone with plant fossils
Carbonaceous mudstone/shale containing fossilized foliage, likely fern or seed-fern impressions
Fossilized Shark Tooth
Chondrichthyes (Class)
Fossil Shark Tooth
Squalicorax (likely Squalicorax pristodontus or Squalicorax falcatus)
Fossil brachiopod shell
Likely a spiriferid or orthid brachiopod; shell composed mainly of calcium carbonate (calcite)
Fossilized bone, likely a large vertebrate limb or rib fragment
Petrified bone; exact taxon indeterminate from the image
Echinoid Fossil (Sea Urchin Fossil)
Echinoidea
Fossiliferous pebble, possibly a crinoid or shell fragment
Indeterminate bioclast in a dark sedimentary matrix; likely carbonate fossil material (calcite, CaCO₃)
Fossilized Bone
Fossilized Vertebrate Bone (Per mineralized)
Fossilized Shark Tooth (Basal Bone)
Otodus sp. (Mineralized Hydroxyapatite)
Likely fossilized coral with polished blue calcite or aragonite specimen
Fossil coral, commonly Scleractinia; blue material likely dyed or treated calcite/aragonite
Megalodon Shark Tooth
Otodus megalodon
Ammonite fossil
Ammonoidea; likely a polished small ammonite, possibly Cleoniceras
Fossil brachiopod shell
Brachiopoda; exact genus and species cannot be determined from the image
Fossil shark tooth
Likely a fossilized shark tooth, possibly *Carcharodon* or *Carcharhinus*; exact species requires provenance and close examination
Ammonite fossil
Fossilized ammonoid cephalopod; likely an ammonite such as *Ammolytoceras* or a related Jurassic–Cretaceous genus
Fossilized gastropod (snail)
Gastropoda; shell commonly preserved as calcite (CaCO₃)
Fossil Coral
Rugose Coral or Tabulate Coral (Phylum Cnidaria)
Fossil Sand Dollar (Echinoidea)
Phylum Echinodermata, Class Echinoidea (likely Dendraster or Scutella)
Mammoth or Mastodon Tooth Fossil
Proboscidea tooth (Mammuthus or Mammut)
Fossilized Shark Tooth
Chondrichthyes (class)
Likely vertebra fossil or bone fragment
Indeterminate fossilized vertebra; mineralized hydroxyapatite, commonly Ca₅(PO₄)₃(OH)
Fossil gastropod in granite-like stone
Gastropoda indet.; enclosing rock likely polished granite or gneiss
Fossilized tooth or tooth fragment
Indeterminate vertebrate tooth; likely mammalian, mineralized hydroxyapatite
Likely petrified wood
Silicified fossil wood, chiefly quartz (SiO₂)
Coral fossil (likely fossilized colonial coral)
Calcareous fossil coral; commonly *Scleractinia* or *Tabulate/ rugose coral* (identification requires close pore-pattern examination)
Ammonite fossil
Ammonoidea (likely an involute ammonite; exact genus requires preparation and context)
Ammonite fossil
Ammonoidea (coiled cephalopod fossil; exact genus indeterminate)
Fossil Shark Tooth
Otodus sp. or Carcharocles sp. (likely fossilized Chondrichthyes)
Fossil fish impression or partial fish fossil
Indeterminate fossilized fish; likely compressed vertebrate remains in sedimentary rock
Polished fossil shell fragment (likely ammonite or bivalve)
Fossilized mollusk shell; likely aragonite/calcite replaced by silica or iron-rich minerals
Fossilized bivalve shell
Paleozoic–Mesozoic bivalve fossil; commonly classified as Bivalvia indet.
Fossilized Blastoid (Sea Bud)
Pentremites sp. (Echinodermata, Blastoidea)
Fossilized bone fragment, possibly vertebra
Fossil bone (mineralized hydroxyapatite; exact taxon indeterminate)