Donated by Zubayer ([email protected]) facebook.com/nhmbd
Precambrian - 1. Rocks From outskirts of Waterton National Park, Alberta, CANADA, $50 Red variety(top), Green Variety and Black lava/magma intrusion- Purcell Sill. http://www.watertonpark.com/gallery/redrock.html http://www.watertonpark.com/reference/geology.htm
Red rocks are usually argillite - with less than 3% oxidized iron; green are also argillite - with unoxidized iron; beige/grey/brown are limestone or dolomite; black is an intrusive magma sandwiched between bands of white marble (super-heated limestone) called the Purcell Sill. Waterton's rocks formed in a sea that existed over 1500 million years ago. Evidence of this ancient seabed is provided by fossilized ripple marks, mud cracks and algal colonies. – 4 piece
2. Nemiana simplex (Palij 1976) age: Upper Ediacaran (Vendian) Mogilev Podolski, Vinnitsa region, Ukraine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemiana 70 USD
3. Stromatolite, 600MYO- 1 BYO, This area is located 50m from the N9 highway between Ourzarzate and Zagora, Morocco
5$ Stromatolites are layered structures typically created by microbal mats, which trap passing sediments. Over time, subsequent microbial growth traps successive layers which cause the stromatolite to grow larger. The stromatolites here are believed to be about 600 million years old, were buried in volcanic deposits, which then eroded away as the Anti-Atlas mountains uplited, exposing the fossil mounds. Cambrian –
$50 4. Trilobite and brachiopod on Matrix Chengjiang Biota, [Similer to Burgress Shale(BC, Canada) fauna ] Chengjiang Maotianshan Shales Fossils Early Cambrian: 525 million years ago http://www.fossilmuseum.net/Fossil_Sites/Chengjiang.htm . http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1388
5. Elrathia Kingii – Trilobite,– mass death plate, Utah, Cambrian, USA
5$
6. cluster of oncolites (Blue green algae), Cambrian era, USA
$ 50
Ordovician - 7. Graptolite Name: Dictyonema sp. Age: Ordovician Location: Mecissi are, Morocco
25$
8. Undescribed Carpoid Age:Lower Ordovician Formation: Basal Upper Fezouata Formation
Location:North of Zagora, SE Morocco $ 80 Silurian - 9. Trilobite, Bryozoans on Matrix, Silurian, Wenlock limestone, UK
40$
Devonian - 10. Devonian Coral reef part- You are looking at some of the best preserved Devonian Age fossil coral in the world. Fossils are found on both sides. A very fine specimen displaying several species of 400 million year old Devonian age fossil coral in Martin limestone the most prevalent being Thamnopora. All fossils naturally in place with no restorations or composite. FOSSIL CORAL - DEVONIAN Martin Formation (Devonian age) Payson, Gila County, Arizona 100$
Devonian Martin Formation (dolomitic limestone) and Mississippian Redwall Limestone, Verde River near Chino Valley
11. AGNATHA "JAWLESS FISH" OSTRACODERMS "SHELL SKINNED" (UNCERTAIN FISH) -Osteostraci (Cephalspis, Stensiopelta, Zychaspis) -Heterostraci (Pteraspis, Podoliaspis and other pteraspids) age: Devonian
River Dnister, Ternopil region, Ukraine $100 p1- p3575$ 12. Osteolepis penderi Lobe finned Fish - jaw and scales 100
Devonian, Scotland
13. Early plant leaf, Devonian , Scotland. (details in paper attached with fossil)
60$
14. Trilobyte head, Trilobye in nodule, gastropod From Bolivia Era – Devonian 40$
Carboniferous - 15. Trilobite track, Carboniferous, USA
$70
Hale formation Cane Hill member Lower Pennsylvanian period Washington CO. AR 16. Carboniferous trilobite in Matrix, Bangor limestone , USA 50 $ http://earthphysicsteaching.homestead.com/Mississippian_Trilobites.html
Carboniferous, reptile track, USA $90 (Please return this, I have the best track for you, this one to go to Barisal university to get attached with the other half of the plate) http://www.geotimes.org/oct03/NN_mine.html
17. Quodropedia prima Footprint fossil - Pennsylvanian age ~315 MYO This is a 16" x 10.5" x 1/2" slab of siltstone showing footprints of a small reptile or amphibian from the Pennsylvanian age, some 300 million years ago. As such these prints come from some of the earliest land roaming animals. It was found at a coal mine in Alabama near the town of Carbon Hill. This particular locality is noted for footprint fossils as cataloged by the 1930 publication Alabama Geologic Survey Museum Paper #9 in which these particular tracks are identified as Quodropedia prima. This particular piece shows bottom side casts of the tracks. There are 17 complete tracks and two other partials. The deposition appears to have been a tidal flat which was laid down above the peat swamp that formed the coal seam. This is a highly unusual museum worthy specimen and one of the largest I have. (Very Rare)
~400$
18. Carboniferous Pecopteris Fern fern leaf nodule, Both positive and negative,Mazon creek,USA
30 $ 1 pair for this item
19. Carboniferous Jelly fish, both sides of nodule, Mazon creek, USA 20$ - 1 pair lot -> 770$
Permian -
140$ 20. Permian reptile with skin preserved [Rare] Discosauriscus pulcherrimus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discosauriscus Boskovice Furrow, in the Czech Republic.
~100$ Vertebra & rib bones with Gastroliths
21. Madagascan reptile Claudiosaurus germani, from the Upper Permian (Thuringian), Sankamena Formation of Sankamena Valley, Madagascar. -Rare
22. Permian reptile track, COCONINO formation, Grand Canyon, USA
70$ http://www.westcarb.org/drilling/pdfs_drilling/coconino.pdf
23. Permian reptile Anthichnium footprints, the El Pueblo track site, early Permian, NM, USA - USD 100$
24. Permian reptile bones (in zip-lock), Oklahoma, USA
$50 http://www.ebay.com/itm/Permian-Vertebrates-of-Richards-Spur-NEW-book-pelycosaurs-Captorhinus-jaws-teeth- /351369634012?hash=item51cf4320dc:g:vBoAAOSwcwhVKRAG
25. Glossopteris Leaf, Permian, Australia
$ 55
515 Triassic - 26. Triassic ammonite(Black), Nevada, USA
20$
27. Australosomus merli - ? Chondrostean Fish Lower Triassic, Madagascar $50
28. Triassic wood, Madagascar http://araucaria.boispetrifie.fr/en/fossilised-wood/75-petrified-forests-arizona- madagascar-indonesia
60$
29. Triassic reptile scutes, tooth & bone, Arizona, USA
50 $
30. Rare Plant root/part from Mongolia, gobi desert
40 $
31. Triassic wood piece, Tasmania, C22 $60 US 32. Turtle(?) coprolite, Found in Madagascar. This specimen is from the Eocene Era (38-55 million years old).
30$ ->310 Jurassic/ Cretaceous - 33. Lycoptera Koi, Jurassic fish on matrix, China -- 80$
34. Insect on matrix - Upper Jurassic/Lower Cretaceous 40$ [Yixian Formation, Bepiao City, - Possible location ]
Liaoning province, China
90$ 35. Arthropod Jurassic, Germany
36. Grasshopper,Crato Formation, Lower Cretaceous, Ceara, Brazil
80$
37. Fossil fish, resin transferred , AGE- Upper Cretaceous - Cenomanian : 95 / 98 Million years old LOCATION : HAQIL - Byblos, Lebanon
Species Name written on the paper.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_technique $ 100
38. Grallator dinosaur track, 200 MYO, Early Jurassic, , Lazare, France, Hettangian layer formation - $300
USD Grallator trackway probably made by a small theropod such as Coelophysis.
38. In the Box different layers of rock , cretaceous, Dinosaur provincial park, Alberta, Canada - Dinosaur bone picture of real bone attached. Red iron stone(mud) layer with plant remains, Bentonite clay representing different layers of the Drumheller formation/ layer formation representations of Dinosaur Provincial Park. (6 pieces for this item)
100$
39. Cretaceous Crocodile coprolite, Dinosaur provincial park, Alberta, Canada 15$
40. Dinosaur coprolite, Jurassic, USA 15$
41. Gastrolith (Cretaceous), Montana, USA 20 $ A gastrolith, also called a stomach stone or gizzard stones, is a rock held inside a gastrointestinal tract. Gastroliths in some species are retained in the muscular gizzard and used to grind food in animals lacking suitable grinding teeth
42. Meta Sequoia Pine Cone – $50 USD Late Cretaceous Period (65 Million Years Old) Hell Creek Formation, South Dakota, USA
43. Iguanadon Bone,Wealdon Beds, Isle of Wight, UK 40$ USD
http://www.dinosaurisle.com/iguanodon.aspx
44. Mosasaur vert out of the Sulphur river - Hunt County, Texas, USA - 100$
45. Mosasaur tooth, Jurassic,Morocco
20$
46. CARCHARODONTOSAURUS SAHARICUS tooth, Morocco, Jurassic,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcharodontosaurus 100$
47. T-rex tooth fragments, Hell Creek, USA
$100
48. Hadrosaur jaw bone, Montana, USA
30$ 49. Hadrosaur bone, Cretaceous,Montana, USA
$20
100$ 50. Hadrosaur rib bones Cretaceous, hell creek Formation, Montana, USA 2 pieces for this item
51. Large Triceratops tooth, Cretaceous, Montana, USA
50$
52. Triceratops Jaw, Hell creek , Montana, USA $ 120
53. Triceratops Frill section, Montana/ south Dakota
$50 Random link - Boston Museum of Science, USA – http://www.mos.org/exhibits/triceratops-cliff
54. Nodosaur Scute, Cretaceous Era ~80 MYO Montana, USA ~150$
55. Box with Saltasaurus egg shell from Patagonia, Argentina
80$ ?raptor egg shell, Mongolia and ?Hadrosaur duckbill dinosaur EGG fragments Late Cretaceous Kaoguo formation Hadrosaur tooth Fragment Amphibian jaw section, Cretaceous, Hell Creek ,USA
56. Dinosaur Egg shell from France 40$ Upper cretaceous
57. Dinosaur Egg shells Edmontosaur edd shell from USA Black one– Raptopr Egg shell from Mongolia 50$
58. K-T boundery, Burn layer glass, Hell creek , USA
20$ http://www.scn.org/~bh162/k-t_boundary.html
Jurassic 1960 Eocene & later – 59. Bird track, Eocene, Green river formation, USA -- 100$ Aves, Charadriiformes (trackway fossil) Eocene Shore Bird Track Ichnofossil Green River Formation, Wasatch County, Utah
60. Raw Baltic amber pieces & 1 piece with fossil fly inclusion, Eocene, ~50 MYO, Poland, from Baltic sea
40 + 15 = ~55$
61. Late Miocene Crab, California, USA 35$
62. Odontopteryx EARLY BIRD BONES /Eocene Bird Bone, Morocco
$20 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odontopteryx
63. Mammoth vertebrate, Last Ice age, IOWA, USA (from a US university collection ) - 200$
64. Mammoth Hair, Last Ice Age, Siberia, Russia 20$
65. Mastodon Tooth, Ice age, - more than 10,000 years old, USA
30$
66. Poebrotherium (CAMEL) bone Fossil, ~35 MYO, Oligocene, USA - 25 $
67. Fossilized-Agatized plant root , USA Possible age - Cenozoic - 20$
68. Campo Del Cielo Iron Meteorite pieces, Argentina 15$ Eocene--> 520$
Total - $ 4650 USD on this list (2015 AD) Total 68 items. Items in pair or same type with multiple pieces are considered as 1 item. Prices are as references only. I am donating the items and not receiving any payment of any kind in return. Another reason to put the pricing is, one will not be able to judge the value of this collection properly without these prices. Prices to buy from the fossil stores would be much higher than what I mentioned in the list. These are the bests from my collection being given to the best institution of the country with related courses. I am doing it for the country.( My parents & everyone else are disappointed how the country’s institutions are recognizing my work but I have not given up hope.)
-- $765 US
– - $985 US --- $595 USD
2011
I, Zubayer donated the following fossils to DU in 2011-
1. Trilobite : Elrathia kingi PTYCHOPARIIDA Family Alokistocaridae Locality: House Range & Drum Mountains, Western Utah, USA Stratigraphy: Wheeler Shale Formation Age: Cambrian - ca 505 mya
2. Inarticulate brachiopod in Matrix species : lingula quadrata Age: Cambrian-Ordovician, Approx 480 million years Location : Bell Island, NL, Canada
3. Fossil Bed/ Fossilized Sea Floor with trace fossils Age: Cambrian-Ordovician, Approx 480 million years Location : Bell Island, NL, Canada
4. Fish: Palaeospondylus gunni Middle Devonian 380 million years old Northern Scotland A specimen of the fossil fish Palaeospondylus gunni from the Middle Devonian Achanarras fish bed, Old Red Sandstone of Achanarras Quarry,Caithness,Scotland. A specimen of this enigmatic fish which is believed to be the larvael stage of the lungfish Dipterus. Found only in Northern Scotland, restrictions on collecting at this site make these specimens hard to come by-this one is from an old collection. The fish is preserved on a small block of fine sandstone, .380 million years old.
5. Arizona Petrified Wood Triassic Petrified wood was formed 225 million years ago during the Triassic period and is 4 times as hard as granite and very colourful, due to the effect of impurities such as iron, manganese, copper and lithium present in the wood during the fossilising process
6. Percopteris fern Leaf Fossilized Location: Mazon Creek, Illinois, USA Carboniferous - Pennsylvanian period [ 300 million years old ]
7. Fossil Belemnite Jurassic period, UK ~150 myo
8. Fossil ammonite Jurassic period, UK ~150 myo
9. Pyritized Ammonite Fossil ORIGIN: Michaelov, Russia PERIOD: Jurassic, Callovian 160 million years old. The exterior surface possesses a beautiful Rose iridescence on a soft white Mother of Pearle surface.
10. Different species of Ammonites, Morocco, Period: Jurassic
11. Mosasaur tooth with jaw bones in Matrix Cretaceous period 70 million years old Found in: (Maastrichtian age) Kouribga phosphate deposits in Khouribga, Morocco These were molded together with the original tooth bone and original sand matrix.
12. Saltasaurus Eggshell Age: Late Cretaceous Period USA
13. Agatized Petrified Dinosaur Bone, Utah
14. Hardosaur bone Hell creek ,USA. Cretaceous
Micro Fossils - 15. Beech River Formation Brownsport Group Upper Silurian Decataur Co., Tennessee. USA
16. Coarse Freaction Carrol Lease Bois d’Arc Formation – Hunton Group Lower Devonian – Helderbergian Clarita, Oklahoma, USA
17. Birdsong Shale Member Ross Formation Lower Devonian Decataur Co., Tennessee, USA
18. Lower Permian vertebrate bone fragments Ryan Formation, WauriKa, Oklahoma, USA
These Fossils were handed over to Chairman Prof. Dr. Mahmood Alam in 2011.
Person in charge was Mr. Rasel Uddin.
Donated by - Zubayer & Amrina (Calgary, Canada)
Mirpur-12, Dhaka
[email protected] (https://www.facebook.com/nhmbd)