Petrified Wood
Silicified Wood (primarily SiO2)
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Petrified Wood
Silicified Wood (primarily SiO2)
Fossiliferous Limestone
Limestone (CaCO3 with Limonite/Goethite staining)
Petrified Wood
Silicified wood (Quartz replacement, SiO2)
Petrified Wood
Silicified Wood (SiO2)
Fossil Bivalve / Ostreid Shell (Hag Stone / Perforated Pebble)
Phylum Mollusca, Class Bivalvia
Petrified Wood (Silicified Fossil)
Silicified Wood (SiO2)
Fossil Shark Tooth (Sand Tiger or Mackerel Shark)
Carcharias sp. or Otodus sp. replaced by Hydroxylapatite/Calcium Carbonate
Likely vertebra fossil or bone fragment
Indeterminate fossilized vertebra; mineralized hydroxyapatite, commonly Ca₅(PO₄)₃(OH)
Fossiliferous Siltstone
Clastic Sedimentary Rock with Fossil Inclusions
Fossiliferous Limestone (Coquina)
Biogenic Limestone (Calcium Carbonate, CaCO3)
Petrified Wood
Silicified Wood (SiO2)
Bivalve Fossil (Brachiopod or Scallop)
Class Bivalvia (or potentially Phylum Brachiopoda)
Fossiliferous Limestone
Calcium carbonate matrix with macrofossils (CaCO3)
Seashell (Cone Snail Shell)
Conus sp. (Calcium Carbonate, CaCO3)
Fossil Shark Tooth
Chondrichthyes (Class)
Petrified Wood
Silicified Wood (SiO2 - Quartz/Chalcedony replacement)
Coquina (Fossiliferous Limestone)
Coquina (Organic Clastic Limestone)
Jasper containing fossilized inclusions
Silicon Dioxide (SiO2) with trace impurities and biogenic inclusions
Petrified Wood
Silicified Wood (SiO2)
Petrified Wood (Silicified Wood)
Silicified Wood (primarily Chalcedony/Quartz, SiO2)
Fossilized Shark Tooth (Partial) or Coprolite
Elasmobranchii (fossil) or Coprolite (trace fossil)
Fossilized Shell Fragment / Mother of Pearl
Calcium Carbonate (CaCO3) - Aragonite/Calcite biomineral
Petrified Wood
Silicified Wood (SiO2)
Fossilized Rugose Coral in Limestone
Order Rugosa in Sedimentary Matrix (CaCO3)
Mosasaur Tooth Fossil
Mosasaurid vertebrate fossil (Hydroxyapatite)
Petrified Wood
Silicified Wood (SiO2)
Fossilized Bone
Permineralized Vertebrate Bone
Fossilized Bone Fragment
Vertebrate Fossil
Agatized Fossil or Chalcedony Nodule
Silicon Dioxide (SiO2) - Cryptocrystalline Quartz
Fossiliferous Limestone with Crinoid Stem
Sedimentary Rock with Echinodermata fossil fragment
Fossilized Bone Chunk
Permineralized Vertebrate Bone (indeterminant)
Fossilized Shark Tooth
Chondrichthyes (Class) fossil
Fossilized Bivalve Shell
Class Bivalvia (fossilized)
Fossil coral (likely colonial/tabulate coral)
Fossilized scleractinian or tabulate coral; calcium carbonate, chiefly CaCO₃ (calcite/aragonite replaced by calcite)
Mosasaur Tooth Fossil
Mosasaurus sp.
Fossilized Tooth
Vertebrate Fossilized Tooth (Mineralized Biogenic Material)
Fossil Shark Tooth
Selachii fossil
Fossiliferous Limestone (Coquina)
Calcite (CaCO3) with Bioclastic inclusions
Petrified Bone (Fossil Bone)
Per mineralization fossil bone (varies by organism, predominantly replacement by SiO2 - Quartz/Chalcedony)
Amber Dragonfly Brooch
Succinited (Baltic Amber)
Bivalve Fossil (Clam Fossil)
Class Bivalvia (likely Gryphaea or similar Order)
Fossiliferous Limestone / Fossil Fragment
Calcium Carbonate (CaCO3) with indeterminate biogenic remains