Fossilized bivalve shell
Fossil mollusk, likely an oyster or similar bivalve; original shell composed of calcium carbonate (aragonite/calcite)
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Fossilized bivalve shell
Fossil mollusk, likely an oyster or similar bivalve; original shell composed of calcium carbonate (aragonite/calcite)
Likely quartz-rich stone or shell fragment
Uncertain; possibly quartz (SiO₂) or a calcareous shell fragment (CaCO₃)
Sandstone (Calcareous or Quartz-rich)
Arenite
Sandstone (lithic wake/graywacke variety)
Arenite/Greywacke (SiO2 with lithic fragments)
Sandstone
Arenite
Sandstone
Arenite (SiO2 based)
Sandstone
Arenite (primarily SiO2)
Sandstone (River Stone)
Arenite (primarily SiO2)
Red Sandstone
Arenite (Ferruginous Sandstone)
Fossiliferous Limestone
Biogenic Limestone (Calcium Carbonate, CaCO3)
Sandstone
Arenite
Gastropod Fossil (Internal Mold)
Phylum Mollusca, Class Gastropoda (Steinkern)
Fossiliferous limestone
Bioclastic carbonate rock, chiefly calcite (CaCO₃)
Petrified Wood
Siliconized Wood (SiO2)
Weathered sedimentary cobble, likely limestone or calcareous sandstone
Indeterminate carbonate-rich clastic rock; possibly micritic limestone or calcarenite
Fossiliferous Limestone
Calcium Carbonate (CaCO3) with Bioclasts
Crinoidean Fossil (Stem Fragment)
Phylum Echinodermata, Class Crinoidea
Fossiliferous Flint / Chert
Microcrystalline quartz (SiO2) with embedded invertebrate fossils
Sandstone (with vugs)
Arenite / Sedimentary Sandstone
Weathered limestone
Calcite-rich limestone (CaCO₃), possibly fossiliferous or bioclastic
Banded jasper (polished/tumbled)
Microcrystalline quartz (SiO₂), commonly iron-oxide– and clay-rich chert
Sandstone / Limestone
Sedimentary Rock (Quartz Sandstone or Calcareous Grainstone)
Sandstone
Clastic sedimentary rock (primarily SiO2)
Fossiliferous Limestone with Rugose Coral
Calcite (CaCO3) matrix containing Rugosa (order of extinct solitary and colonial corals)
Fossiliferous Limestone with Brachiopod
Phylum Brachiopoda in Sedimentary Matrix (CaCO3)
Fossiliferous shale or slate with plant impressions
Carbonaceous mudstone/shale; possible fossil plant material (often fern-like impressions)
Crinoid Marble (Fossilized Limestone)
Crinoidal Limestone (comprising Calcite/Aragonite CaCO3)
Limestone
Micritic limestone, chiefly calcite (CaCO₃)
Fossiliferous limestone pebble
Bioclastic limestone, chiefly calcite (CaCO₃)
Fossiliferous Limestone (Crinoidal)
Crinoid Limestone (CaCO3 with fossil biological remains)
Sandstone (Ferruginous)
Arenite with Iron Oxide cement
Likely weathered gray limestone or shale fragment
Calcite-rich carbonate rock (limestone), possibly calcareous shale
Fossil shell impression or shell-bearing limestone
Indeterminate bioclastic carbonate; likely mollusk fragment preserved in limestone or mudstone
Sandstone
Sandstone (clastic sedimentary rock, predominantly SiO2)
Polished fossiliferous limestone (likely orbicular/fossil limestone)
Fossiliferous micritic limestone, composed primarily of calcite (CaCO₃)
Glauconitic Sandstone
Glauconitic Sandstane (containing K,Na)(Fe3+,Al,Mg)2(Si,Al)4O10(OH)2)
Calcite rosette (possibly fossilized shell fragment)
Calcite, CaCO₃; crystal habit appears botryoidal/rosette-like
Fossilized Shark Tooth
Fossilised Chondrichthyes dental specimen (likely Otodus or Carcharias sp.)
Ferruginous Sandstone Concretion (Ironstone Phosphorite)
Ferruginous Sandstone (variable Fe-oxide/hydroxide composition)
Brachiopod Fossil in Matrix
Phylum Brachiopoda
Fossiliferous Limestone (Gastropod / Crinoid Fossil Rock)
Biogenic Sedimentary Rock (CaCO3)
Rounded quartz-rich sandstone cobble
Quartz arenite (sandstone), likely iron-stained