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
This is a spectacular fossil freshwater crab (Potamon) preserved in travertine from the Denizli Basin in Southwest Turkey. The travertine deposits in the Denizli Basin are Pleistocene in age, having been formed within the past 400,000 years.
From Morocco
Hatay, Türkiye
Karaman, Türkiye
Karaman, Türkiye
Hatay, Türkiye
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).
Hatay, Türkiye
Karaman, Türkiye
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
Karaman, Türkiye
Karaman, Türkiye
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.
Karaman, Türkiye
Mosasaurus is the extinct group of aquatic squamate reptiles. it lived from about 82 to 66 million years ago.
From Kütahya, Türkiye
From Kütahya, Türkiye
From Karaman, Türkiye
Fossilized tree resin.
From Kütahya, Türkiye
From Eskişehir, Türkiye
From Eskişehir, Türkiye
From Kütahya, Türkiye
From Türkiye
From Turkey
From Türkiye
From Ankara, Türkiye
From Kütahya, Türkiye
From Eskişehir, Türkiye
From Ankara, Türkiye
From Türkiye
Karaman, Türkiye
From Eskişehir, Türkiye