Coeloma Crab Fossil from Russia

This image is of Coeloma taunicum crab fossils on display at Mace Brown Museum of Natural History (August 2017). They date to the Oligocene Epoch (about 25 million years ago), Paleogene Period. The fossil was found in Kazakhstan, Russia.

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/

Macropipus Crab Fossil - Italy

This image is of a Macropipus tuberculatus swimming crab fossil on display at Mace Brown Museum of Natural History (August 2017). It dates to the Miocene Epoch (about 10 million years ago), Neogene Period. The fossil was found in Sardinia, Italy.

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/

Unknown Coiled Cephalopod Fossil

Recently, I was e-mailed these pictures of coiled cephalopod fossil. It was found by an 11 year old boy in rock from a quarry in northwest Illinois. The rock dates to the Silurian Period.

I think it might be a Lechritrochoceras. See the drawing of one at the Illinois State Geological Survey web site: http://www.isgs.illinois.edu/outreach/geology-resources/cephalopods