fossil collection pictures and descriptions, ammonites, belemnites

Fossil Collection

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This page contains pictures and descriptions of specimens from my
fossil collection. Pictures are displayed in order of type and
classification to Subclass level:

Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Subclass.
Order, Family, Genus, Species, Subspecies are displayed, if known,
in the specimen description.
Preservational and Behavioural Classifications are used for Trace fossils.
I warn you now that palaeontology is not one of my strong points so
please do not take the classifications on this page for granted.
Please feel free to suggest corrections to: fossil@bashrox.net

	Animalia
Unclassified	Mollusca	Arthropoda
Unclassified	Bivalva Pteriomorphia	Trilobita
	Cephalapoda Ammonoidea
	Cephalapoda Coleoidea

Kingdom Animalia

Phylum Unknown

RefP1 Shark's Tooth. Age: Eocene. From Morocco
(this specimen was purchased from a craft fair, Wisbech) 1^st July 1995

Phylum Mollusca
Class Bivalva
Subclass Pteriomorphia

RefP7 Gryphaea. Order: Pterioda. Family: Ostreidae. Genus: gryphaea.
Age: Jurassic. Environment/Mode of Life: Sea bed/free-lying. This specimen was collected from a gravel driveway in Cambridgeshire.

Class Cephalapoda
Subclass Ammonoidea

RefP53 Ammonite. Order: Ammonitida. Family: Dactylioceras.
Genus: commune. Age: Jurassic. Environment/Mode of Life: marine/necktonic. This specimen was collected from a cliff section, Peak to Blea Wyke nr Ravendscar, Yorkshire, UK on 17^th June 1995

RefP56 Ammonite. Order: Ammonitida. Family: Dactylioceras. Genus: commune.
Age: Jurassic. Environment/Mode of Life: marine/necktonic. This specimen was collected from a cliff section, Peak to Blea Wyke, nr. Ravenscar, Yorkshire, UK on 17^th June 1995

Formerly RefP56 Ammonite. Order: Ammonitida. Age: Jurassic. Environment/Mode of Life: marine/necktonic. This specimen was collected from a cliff section, Peak to Blea Wyke, nr. Ravenscar, Yorkshire, UK on 17^th June 1995

RefP11 Ammonite. Age: 50 Ma - Upper Jurassic. Environment/Mode of Life: marine/free-swimmer. This specimen is a half of an Ammonite which has been sliced and polished on the internal surface to display the preserved internal structure. (Purchased in Dorset) 29th March 1995

Subclass Coleoidea

RefP42 Belemnite. Environment/Mode of Life: marine/necktonic. This specimen collected at Speeton, Yorkshire on 14^th June 1995

[no record] Belemnite. This is a good Belemnite specimen since the main part is preserved rather than just the guard. This specimen seems to have found it's way into my collection without me having any record of it, although the external appearance is not inconsistent with fossils I have retrieved from gravel.

Phylum Arthropoda
Class Trilobita

Ref:P17 Trilobite. Genus: peranopsis Age: Lower Cambrian to Upper Ordovician.
Environment/Mode of Life: marine/benthic (this specimen was purchased from a craft fair, Wisbech). The geographic origin of this specimen is unknown. 30^th June 1995

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