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Case Index

Acquisition # Images Length (cm) Common Name, Locale Species Name
 4018  5.0 Stony Meteorite, Fell in Holbrook, Arizona in 1912. Chondrite
4019   5.2  Stony Iron Meteorite (polished section), Found in Brenham, Kansas, 1882.  Pallasite
 4020 7.9  Iron Pyrite  
 4015 14.8  Witwatersrand conglomerate, South Africa  
 4016 11.2  Pyrite flowers in shale  
 4000 6.9  Banded Iron Formation  
 4021 20.0  Cleavage fragment of gypsum  
 4005 13.2  Stromatolite, Mount Nelson Formation, British Columbia  
 4002 11.2  Stromatolite  
 4003 25.1  "Elephant skin", White Sea deposits of Russia  fossil bacterial mat (cast)
 4001 22.1  Charnwood forest, Leicestershire, England  Charnia masoni (cast)
 4004 & 4011 12.6 & 13.1  White Sea deposits of Russia   Charnia masoni (cast)
 4010 15.8  Jelly (medusa), White Sea deposits of Russia Cyclomedusa (cast)
4014 9.5 Ediacara fossil beds of Australia Dickinsonia costata (cast)
 4012 18.8 Ediacara fossil beds of Australia  Dickinsonia lissa (cast)
 4006   15.8  Jelly (medusa), White Sea deposits of Russia  Eoporpita (cast)
 4007 14.5  burrowing sea anemone, White Sea deposits of Russia  Niemiana (cast)
 4008   24.0 Jelly (medusa), White Sea deposits of Russia  Protodipleurosoma rugulosum (cast)
 4009   11.4  White Sea deposits of Russia  Pteridinium (cast)
 4013   8.5 Ediacara fossil beds of Australia   Tribrachidium heraldicum (cast)

Touch Shelf Index

 4023

 5.9

 Nickel-Iron Meteorite, Canyon Diablo Meteor crater, Arizona.

Octahedrite

 4022

20

 Banded Iron Formation (slab), Australia
 

 4001

22.1

Charnwood forest, Leicestershire, England

  Charnia masoni (cast)

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