Fossiliferous Shale
Fossiliferous Mudstone / Shale
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Fossiliferous Shale
Fossiliferous Mudstone / Shale
Fossiliferous Limestone with Rugose Coral
Calcium Carbonate (CaCO3) featuring Rugosa (extinct order of solitary and colony corals)
Weathered limestone or calcitic fossil/reef fragment
Calcite-rich limestone (CaCO₃), possibly fossiliferous limestone
Polished fossiliferous limestone, likely crinoidal or coral limestone
Calcite (CaCO₃), fossiliferous carbonate rock
Fossil Shark Tooth
Carcharodon or Carcharias fossil (Vertebrate Fossil)
Fossilized Bone Chunk
Permineralized Vertebrate Bone (indeterminant)
Fossilized Gastropod Internal Mold
Steinkern (Mollusca: Gastropoda)
Fossilized Bone Fragment
Vertebrate Fossil
Fossilized Shark Tooth (likely Sand Tiger Shark)
Carcharias taurus (fossilized hydroxyapatite/calcium phosphate)
Fossil Snail
Gastropoda fossil
Sandstone with Fossil Leaf Impression
Sedimentary rock (Sandstone/Siltstone matrix) with Carbonaceous film fossil
Crinoid Stalk in Limestone
Crinoid fossil in Biomicrite (Limestone)
Bivalve Fossil (Clam Fossil)
Class Bivalvia (likely Gryphaea or similar Order)
Sea Urchin Fossil
Echinoidea (test/fossil)
Shark Tooth Fossil
Selachii fossil
Fossil Sponge / Horn Coral / Crinoid Stem
Phylum Porifera or Cnidaria fossilized in calcium carbonate / silica
Fossiliferous Limestone
Calcium carbonate matrix with macrofossils (CaCO3)
Chert or flint with chalcedony/quartz veins
Microcrystalline silica: primarily quartz (SiO₂), including chalcedony; possible fossiliferous limestone or silicified material
Mosasaur Tooth Fossil
Mosasauridae (likely Prognathodon or Plioplatecarpus)
Fossiliferous Sandstone Pebble (with Crinoid / Shell Impression)
Sandstone containing fossiliferous inclusions (SiO2 matrix with calcite/silica cast fossil)
Sandstone and Conglomerate pebbles
Sedimentary clastic rock
Bivalve Fossil (Clam Shell)
Class Bivalvia
Fossilized Bivalve in Limestone
Class Bivalvia within Sedimentary Matrix (likely CaCO3)
Brachiopod Fossil
Rhynchonellida (Order)
Fossil Snail
Gastropoda (fossilized)
Fossil-bearing limestone
Bioclastic limestone, likely containing bivalve or brachiopod impressions
Fossiliferous Rock (Invertebrate Fossil in Matrix)
Fossiliferous limestone or shaly matrix containing skeletal fossil remains
Tumbled, weathered limestone or calcareous concretion
Calcite-rich limestone; predominantly calcium carbonate (CaCO₃)
Fossil Bone Fragment
Petrified bone (permineralized hydroxyapatite)
Brachiopod Fossil in Limestone
Phylum Brachiopoda embedded in sedimentary rock
Fossil Assortment and Geological Specimens
Various (including Ammonoidea)
Fossiliferous limestone
Calcarenite/bioclastic limestone, predominantly calcite (CaCO₃)
Fossiliferous Limestone with Crinoid Stem
Sedimentary Rock with Echinodermata fossil fragment
Crinoid Stem Fossil in Matrix
Crinoid (Class Crinoidea) in Limestone/Siltstone matrix
Fossilized Fish (Lepidotes)
Lepidotes sp. (Order: Lepisosteiformes)
Fossilized Bone
Permineralized Vertebrate Bone
Bivalve Fossil (Internal Mold)
Bivalvia (Phalladomya or similar genus)
Fossiliferous Limestone
Calcium Carbonate (CaCO3) with Biogenic Fossils
Fossiliferous Limestone (Crinoidal)
Calcite-bearing bioclastic packstone (CaCO3)
Orthoceratid Fossil in Limestone
Orthoceras (extinct genus of Nautiloid Cephalopod)
Fossilized Gastropod / Coral
Phylum Mollusca / Cnidaria (Silicified or Calcified)
Devil's Toenail
Gryphaea (extinct genus of foam oysters, typically composed of Calcite CaCO3)