Showing posts with label campanian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label campanian. Show all posts

Monday, December 4, 2017

Ammonite Fossil from Morocco


This image is of Schloenbachia sp. ammonite fossil on display at Mace Brown Museum of Natural History (August 2017). They date to the Campanian Age (about 80 million years ago), Late Cretaceous Period. The fossil was found in Morocco.

The Mace Brown Museum of Natural History is located at the College of Charleston, 202 Calhoun Street, 2nd Floor, Charleston, South Carolina 29424.

Learn more at their blog: http://blogs.cofc.edu/macebrownmuseum/

Thursday, November 30, 2017

Ptychodus whipple Stingray Fossil Teeth


This image is of Ptychodus whipple fossil ancestral stingray teeth on display at Mace Brown Museum of Natural History (August 2017). They date to the Campanian Age (about 80 million years ago), Late Cretaceous Period. The fossils were found in the Eagle Ford Shale Grayson County Texas USA.

The Mace Brown Museum of Natural History is located at the College of Charleston, 202 Calhoun Street, 2nd Floor, Charleston, South Carolina 29424.

Learn more at their blog: http://blogs.cofc.edu/macebrownmuseum/

Friday, October 3, 2014

Scytalia laevis Fossil


The picture shown is of a Scytalia laevis sponge fossil at the Museo di Paleontologia at Sapienza University of Rome Italy. Creatures like this existed at the time of the Upper Cretaceous Period (Campanian). The fossil was found in Nettlingen, Hannover, Germany.

Image taken in June 2014.

Another German specimen can be seen at this fossil web site:
http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/gallery/image/23435-scytalia-turbinata-roemer-1864/

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Echinocorys sulcatus Echinoid Fossil

This fossil might be the first one I ever posted from Denmark. The label that came with it listed Dalbyover, Denmark. It appears be an Echinocorys sulcatus from the Paleocene (Danian). See the Fossils of NJ web site for more information: fossilsofnj.com/coppermine/displayimage.php?pid=39

Thank you to Dieter Ketelsen of Hamburg, Germany for this specimen. Much appreciated! Thanks to Michael at foraminifera.eu for transporting the specimen and the identification link.