Fossil Picture Gallery
Ammonoids—They ruled the seas for 300 million years.
Bivalves—The classic shellfish dates from Cambrian times.
Brachiopods—These shelled creatures look like bivalves but are quite different.
Cold Seep—A miniature seafloor community of Paleocene age.
Dinosaur Bone—Polished as a cool red trabecular gemstone.
Dinosaur Eggs—Chinese specimens in a high-end rock shop.
Foraminifers—One-celled versions of mollusks worth learning about.
Gastropods—Tiny freshwater snail shells in an ancient lake bed.
Green River Fish Fossils—Knightia specimens resemble freshwater perch.
Horn Corals—From the classic Devonian sequences of upstate New York.
Horse Tooth Fossil—A token from the Miocene Epoch, when early equines roamed the U.S. east coast.
Insect in Amber—A honey-colored earring holds an ancient fly.
Mammoth—Remains of these big guys are widespread.
Packrat Midden—Piles of plants plastered with packrat pee endure for thousands of years.
Petrified Wood—It has a familiar look no matter what its age is.
Root Casts—Fossils of grass roots penetrate this sandstone, showing the direction of up.
Shark Teeth—In much of the American east coast, these are common fossils.
Stromatolite—An ancient example from New York.
Trilobite—These survivors of the Paleozoic occur on every continent.
Tubeworm—A fossil tubeworm from a fossil seafloor cold seep.
Special Galleries: Fossil Wood, Stromatolites
Other picture galleries:
Glaciers and Ice Pictures
Landform Pictures
Mineral Pictures
Rock Pictures
Geologic Features and Processes Pictures
Geology and Society Pictures
Free Geologic Wallpaper Pictures
