Some scans of my fossil collection (mostly trilobites)
This page last updated 2nd July 2006
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Asaphiscus wheeleri trilobite, Cambrian, Utah, USA.
Modocia brevispina trilobite, Cambrian, Wheeler Shale, West of Antelope Springs, Utah, USA.
Two partial Olenellus sp. trilobites, Cambrian, Utah, USA.
Elrathia kingii (larger trilobite) with two smaller, blind Peronopsis sp., Cambrian, Wheeler Shales, Utah, USA.
Imperfect scan of a perfect, 3mm long Brachyaspidion microps trilobite, Cambrian, Wheeler Formation, Millard County, Utah, USA.
Densonella semele trilobite, Cambrian, Weeks Formation, Millard County, Utah, USA.
Three Cedaria minor trilobites, Cambrian, Weeks Formation, Millard County, Utah, USA. The largest trilobite is preserved ventrally (upside-down) and shows the hypostome (mouth-plate) as a black dot towards the head end of the fossil.
Piochaspis sellata trilobite, Cambrian, Chisolm Shale, near Pioche, Nevada, USA.
Olenellas sp. trilobite, Cambrian, Chisolm Shale, near Pioche, Nevada, USA.
Zacanthoides typicalis trilobite, Cambrian, Pioche, Nevada, USA.
Kainops sp. trilobite, Devonian, Oklahoma.
A close-up of the same Kainops, showing detail of the Phacopid schizochroal eye.
Detail of a tidal wash plate with fragments of Triarthrus and Cryptolithus trilobites, from the Silurian Lorraine Shale, between Martinsburg and High Market, New York. Look closely . . .
Pyritised orthocone cephalopod with several anchored brachiopods, also from the Lorraine Shale.
Cnemidopyge nuda nuda trilobite (Murchison), Ordovician, Llandeilo Series, Builth Wells, Powys, Wales.
Cnemidopyge bisecta trilobite partials, Ordovician, Wales.
Gravicalymene arcuata trilobite, Ordovician, Ashgill Series, Near Llangollen, Mid Wales. Note the tectonic distortion.
Ogygiocarella trilobite, molted exoskeleton, Ordovician, Llandeilo Series, Builth Wells, Powys, Wales.
Ogygiocarella debuchii trilobite, plus partials of Trinucleus fimbriatus, Lower Ordovician, Llandeilo Series, Meadowtown, Shropshire, England.
Conocoryphe cirina trilobite, Middle Cambrian, Jince Formation, Rejovice (Potucek), Czech Republic.
Ellipsocephalus hoffii trilobite, Cambrian, Jince, Czech Republic.
Aulacopleura konincki trilobite, Silurian, Lodenice, Czech Republic.
Another Aulacopleura konincki from the same site.
Coltraneia prorotundifrons trilobite (possibly C. oufateneusis), Devonian, Oufaten Alnif, Morocco.
Metacanthina sp. trilobite, Devonian, Morocco.
Leonaspis sp. trilobite, Devonian, Oufaten Alnif, Morocco.
Crotalocephalus sp. trilobite, Devonian, Atchana, Morocco.
Cyphaspis sp. trilobite, Devonian, Issimour Alnif, Morocco.
Part and counterpart of an Ellipsocephalus mortality plate, Cambrian, Morocco.
Ductina sp. trilobite, Devonian, China.
Encrinurus sp. trilobite, Silurian, Sichuan, China. Pustulose glabella = warty head.
Wujiajiania sp. trilobite part and counterpart, Cambrian, British Columbia, Canada.
Unidentified spiny trilobite from the same site as the Wujiajiania.
Another unidentified trilobite from the same site.
Labiostria sp. trilobite, Upper Cambrian, Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada.
Solenopleuropsis (Manublesia) thorali trilobite part and counterpart, Lower Oville Formation, Middle Cambrian, Barrios de Luna (Léon), Spain.
Fossil plate from the Waldron Shales, Silurian, Waldron, Indiana. Calymene breviceps trilobite at left, plus brachiopods and a crinoid base plate lower right. The { shapes in the rock are loose trilobite segments.
A close-up of the Calymene breviceps from the same plate.
Maurotarion trilobite, also from the Silurian Waldron Shales.
All six sides of a Bolivian Stromatolite (fossilised algal mat), Salt Lake of Uyuni, Oruro State, Bolivia, around 2.7 billion years old.
Two sides of a piece of South African Butterstone, another Stromatolite, around 2.5 billion years old.
Knightia sp. fish mortality plate, Green River Formation, Eocene, Wyoming.
A close-up of the same Knightia plate.
Unidentified fish fossil (Dastilbe sp?), Cretaceous, Ceara, Brazil.
Lycoptera sp. fish, late Jurassic, Yixian Liaoning province, China.
Osteolepis panderi fish, Devonian, Caithness, Scotland. Fish head at lower left, lots of loose scales in the rock.
Carboniferous fish scale (<1 cm long) found by me in Blairskaith Quarry, near Milngavie, Glasgow, 1st May 2006.
Carboniferous plant stem found in Blairskaith Quarry on the same day. Some fragments of fish scales also visible.
(l-r): fossil bivalve, piece of iron pyrite, ammonite fragments and a "rotten flint" (fossil sponge). Lower Jurassic, Chippel Bay, Lyme Regis. Found by me, December 2005.
Ammonite fragment with transparent calcite crystals. Lower Jurassic, Black Ven, Lyme Regis. As above.
More ammonites from the Black Ven, Lyme Regis. As above.
Belemnite fragments from the Black Ven, Lyme Regis. As above.
Association slab including Holtedahlina, Dalmanella (Brachiopods), Isotelus, Flexicalymene (Trilobite molt fragments), Ectenocrinus, Cincinnaticrinus (Crinoids), Ordovician, Kope Formation, Ft. Mitchell, Kentucky, USA.
Microfossils from the Ryan Formation, Jefferson County, Oklahoma; mostly freshwater shark (1. Xenacanthus texensis) and amphibian (2. Eryops megacephalus, 3. Trimerorachis insignis) teeth, Lower Permian (average size 2mm).
Neuropteris heterophylla fern, Coal Measures, Westphalian (Carboniferous), roof shales above the Wigan two foot coal seam, Crockhey Pit, Wigan, Lancashire, England.
Keichousaurus hui, aquatic reptile, Jurassic, Guizhou Sheng, China. Looks genuine to me...
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