Immigration Rights and Resources for the Campus Community

Exercising Your Rights to Free Speech

background 0background 1background 2background 3

Breadcrumb

Making Fossils

Acquisition #Common NameSpecies NameImagePeriodLocation
427
Trace Fossil - Bird Tracks
Trace Fossil - Bird Tracks
Paleogene (Eocene)Green River Formation
257 & 258
Fern Leaf - positive and negative impressionsAlethopteris seili
Fern Leaf - positive and negative impressions
PennsylvanianMazon Creek, Illinois
368
Redwood Tree Leaf - carbon film impressionSequoia sp.
Redwood Tree Leaf - carbon film impression
unknown
157
Horn Corals - replaced with red agateLophophyllum sp.
Horn Corals - replaced with red agate
DevonianUtah
456
Redwood Leaf - impressions in limoniteDendraster venturensis
Redwood Leaf - impressions in limonite
Neogene (Pliocene)
580
Beetle (predacious water beetle) - preserved in asphaltCybister explanatus
Beetle (predacious water beetle) - preserved in asphalt
Neogene (Pleistocene)Kern County, California
624
Gastropod (snail) - internal sandstone mold
Gastropod (snail) - internal sandstone mold
Neogene (Pleistocene)Sonora, Mexico
1279
Mammal BoneUnidentified
Mammal Bone
Paleogene (Oligocene)South Dakota
1305 & 1306
Brachiopod - pyrite replacement (left: acid etched; right: natural)Paraspirifer bqwenockeri
Brachiopod - pyrite replacement (left: acid etched; right: natural)
DevonianSilica Shale, Lucas County, Ohio
F-01
Whale bone- cross section showing bone cells, some filled with mud
Whale bone- cross section showing bone cells, some filled with mud
F-02
Redwood - wood fragment
Redwood - wood fragment
F-03
Tree branch - showing external shape
Tree branch - showing external shape
F-04
Boring Clam BurrowsPholads sp.
Boring Clam Burrows
F-05
Amber with insect parts
Amber with insect parts
F-06
Scallop assemblage - external impressions in mudstone
Scallop assemblage - external impressions in mudstone
F-07
Turret shell - internal sandstone mold
Turret shell - internal sandstone mold
F-08
Olive shell - internal sandstone mold
Olive shell - internal sandstone mold
F-09
Clam (Eel river) - showing traces of original shell
Clam (Eel river) - showing traces of original shell
F-10
Clam assemblage (Eel river) - showing traces of original shell
HSU-41
Coprolite - fossil cast of excrement
Coprolite - fossil cast of excrement