MineralCollection

Fossils and their features

Knightia Alta

These beautifully preserved fossil fish are found in the famous Green River Shales of Wyoming U.S.A. A relative of the modern day herring, these fish were probably at the bottom of the food chain, eating algae and small single cell animals.

From Wyoming U.S.A
50 million years old

Trilobite

Trilobites were among the most successful of all early animals, existing in oceans for almost 270 million years, with over 22,000 species having been described. The earliest trilobites known from the fossil record is dated to around 520 million years ago

Orthoceras

Orthocerases were squid-like animals and they are related to ancient ammonites as well as modern squids, octopuses, cuttlefish and nautiluses. They lived during the Jurassic period (started 201 million years ago) and Cretaceous period (ended 66 million years ago).

Mosasaurus Tooth

Mosasaurus is the extinct group of aquatic squamate reptiles. it lived from about 82 to 66 million years ago.

Ammonite fossil

Ammonites, which evolved about 416 million years ago, were once the most abundant animals of the ancient seas. There are more than 10,000 ammonite species identified.