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Precambrian - 1 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
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