Fossils and Ancient Life

Photographs of various fossils including trilobites and fish, showcasing prehistoric life and geological formations with intricate details.

USA, Washington State, Seabeck. Close-up of fish fossil.

Paradoxides sp fossil, Trilobita.

Peronidella pistilliformis (Lamouroux). A natural mould in oolitic limestone, left when a branching sponge was dissolved away. Middle Jurassic, Bathonian Stage, Great Oolite, Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire.

Deep Sea Fish, Pycnosteroides levispinous, Middle Cretaceous, Lebanon, Asia

PETROGLIFO CON DECORACION ABSTRACTA DE EL JULAN (HIERRO). Location: ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM. SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE. TENERIFFA. SPAIN.

USA, Washington State, Seabeck. Close-up of fish fossil.

Trilobite (Dalmanites camprodonensis) fossil from the Silurian period, Girona, Spain

Metasequoia (Metasequoia sp) thirty-three million year old fossil needles, John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Oregon

Trilobite (Olenoides sp) fossil from the Middle Cambrian era, specimen from the Rocky Mountains, North America

Fossil Coelacanth - Jurassic. Germany. Rare.

petroglyph, prehistoric ungulate, Aït Ouazik rock deposit, late Neolithic, Morocco, Africa.

Ginko Leaf Fossil, Ginko adiantoides, Paleocene, North Dakota, ND, USA, North America

Claraia clarai fossils, Bivalvia, Early Triassic.

Palaebafistum sp. Dinòpolis. Teruel Paleontological Museum, Teruel Paleontological Foundation. Aragon. spain.

HUESO COXAL DE HOMBRE ACTUAL. Location: FACULTAD DE BIOLOGICAS. MADRID. SPANIEN.

$Plumose fracture in Proterozoic argillite of the Appekunny Formation, Glacier National Park, Montana$

Pre historic rock paintings at Porivarai in Karikkiyoor, Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu, India Copyright: xMxAmirtham/DinodiaxPhotox

Bañolas mandible (Gerona). Neandertal man. Madrid, Ethnological Museum. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. BAÑOLAS. GERONA. SPAIN.

Crossopodia fossils.

Fossil - Bird. Confuciusornis. Lower Cretaceous. China. This specimen is a well preserved female bird with extensive organic preservation-carbonized skin and feathers covering some of the well preserved bones, the right wing and leg and a small portion of the beak has been chewed by a burrowing animal shortly after the creature died.

Fossil of Hemirhodon amplipyge trilobite, Trilobita, Arthropoda, Cambrian.

Dalmanitina socialis fossil, Trilobita, Arthropoda.

The muscles, bones and tendons of the lower leg and foot, seen from the front. Pen and ink, with pink and brown watercolour washes, heightened with white, by C. Landseer, ca. 1815.

Slimonia acuminata fossil, Eurypterida arthropods.

$Serpentinization along fracture in peridotite.$

Rhyolite igneous volcanic rock of felsic (silica-rich) composition Date:

Inoceramus balticus fossil, Bivalvia, Late Cretaceous.

Ammonite from Scotland, Great Britain.

cranium of Eoraptor lunensis, 235 million years ago, Dinosauria, dinosaur museum, hall of evolution, Esperaza.departamento del Aude, Languedoc-Roussillon, Pyrenees oriental,France, europa.

Lloydolithus ornatus fossil, Trilobita, Arthropoda.

Africa, Morocco, star fish fossil

Holothuroidean (Oneirophantites tarraconensis) fossil, 15 cm in length, Spain

Sivapithecus sivalensis, a genus of extinct primates. Fossil remains of animals now assigned to this genus dated from 12.5 million to 8.5 million years old in Miocene, have been found since the 19th century in the Siwalik Hills in what is now India, Nepal and Pakistan.

imprint of ancient animals on a white background

Dactylioceras sp. Toarcian (180 million years). Germany. The hole in the shell, located opposite the hole from which the ammonite's head emerged, is characteristic of an attack by a squid. In some outcrops, this trace of predation is observed on 20% of the ammonites. - Blouet brothers collection

Sectioned Ammonite. Natural Science Collection - Palaeontology

Monograptus sp fossil, Graptolithina.

Fossil of Pelosaurus laticeps, Amphibians, Permian.

Dickinsonia costata fossil, Ediacaran biota, Precambrian Period.

Fossil of fourty-four million year old leaf, John Day Fossil Beds National Monument, Oregon

Ammonite, Lithacoceras sp., fossil, 150 million years, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany,

Archaeocyathid fossil, Archaeocyatha, Lower Cambrian.

Campania Caserta Santa Maria Capua Vetere Anfiteatro Campano8. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Antiquities: Remains of Roman amphitheater General Notes: INCOMPLETE RECORD NEEDS WORK, SEE TCI AND HUTZEL STUFF--NEGATIVE PROCESSED, PRINTS FILED German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to by Hutzel as Foto Arte Minore, is thorough documentation of art historical development in Italy up to the 18th century, including objects of the Etruscans and the Romans, as well as early Medieval, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque monuments. Images are organized by geographic region in Italy, then by province, city, site complex and monument.

Petroglyph in Gobustan State Reserve, Azerbaijan, Transcaucasia

Xiphotrygus. Fossil. Museum of Geology. Rapid City. State of South Dakota. United States of America.

Bones belonging to two extinct species of elephants.

An ammonite from Keynsham. The shell of an animal that lived in the sea in the early part of the Jurassic Period, about 200 million years ago. It became fossilised and a part of the Lias rocks that the town of Keynsham in Somerset now stands.

Close up of trilobite fossil, Spain, Europe

Ripplemarks in coastal-deposited sandstone of Cretaceous Dakota Formation, Colorado. Photo is about 30 cm across.

Surface of river soil with minerals

Fossil Lungfish - Osteolepis panderi - Mid Devonian - Caithness - Scotland

Ichtyemidion vidali (Sauvage, 1903) Berriasici-Valanginia, Santa Maria de Mei, Vilanova de Meia, Noguera (Fossil Fish) Early Cretaceous (geochronological name) or the Lower Cretaceous (chronostratigraphic name), is the earlier or lower of the two major divisions of the Cretaceous. It is usually considered to stretch from 146 Ma to 100 Ma

Lapworthura miltoni (Salter). Silurian Ludlow series Leintwardine Herefordshire. Dated 2015

fossil trilobite (phacops rana africanis) cambrian period 525 million years old morocco

Cyrtograptus sp fossils, Graptolithina.

Fossil Ammonite

Inoceramus mantellii fossil, Bivalvia.

Fossil Mososaurus Teeth - Morocco

Gobi petroglyphs, Mongolia

Dinosaur Skull Fossil (Allosaurus jimmadseni)

Canadaspis perfecta fossil, Crustacea, Cambrian.

Harpoceras exaratum ammonite fossil, Early Jurassic, Como, Lombardy, Italy.

Fossilized fish (4.6 inches long) swallowing another fish. Mioplosus labracoides eating Diplomystus dentatus. From the Green River Formation, Eocene epoch, Tertiary period, Cenozoic era. Southern Wyoming, USA Photographed under controlled conditions (Specimen courtesy of Rick Hebdon, Thayne, Wyoming).

Native American petroglyphs featuring an image of a snake at Petroglyph National Monument, outside Albuquerque, New Mexico

Hand-beast (Chirotherium barthii), a trace fossil from the early Triassic, Montseny Natural Park, Catalonia, Spain

Evolutionary offshoot. This prominent ridge along the top of the skull of Paranthropus aethiopicus was for anchoring its strong jaw muscles. A heavy jaw and big teeth probably enabled it to chew tough, woody plants. Living in Kenya between 2.3-2.7 mill

Palaebafistum sp. Dinòpolis. Museo paleontólogico de Teruel, fundación conjunto Paleontólogico de Teruel. Aragon. españa.

Fossil Echinoid, Echinocorys Scutata. Preserved in flint.. Natural Science Collection - Palaeontology

Jellyfish fossils, 150 million year old, Solnhofen, Bavaria, Germany

Natural science museum: scipionyx samniticus, pietraroja benevento, bergamo, Italy

Prehistory, Spain, Paleolithic. Engraved plaque depicting a doe. From the Cueva del Parpallo' cave, Gandia.

Fossil of star (Lapworthura miltoni). Silurian Period. 420 million years. Natural History Museum. London. United Kingdom.

Horseshoe Crab (Limulus polyphemus) and extinct Horseshoe Crab (Mesolimulus walchi) fossil showing similarity in design, Slaughter Beach, Delaware (Composite Illustration), Slaughter Beach, Delaware

Fossil Limestone, Cretaceous.

America, Mexico, Zacatecas, Eden Mine, fossil

Shell fossils on Doi Luang Chiang Dao, Chiang Mai, Thailand.. Shell fossils on Doi Luang Chiang Dao.

Dinosaur footprints near Leribe, Lesotho.

Canada, Quebec, Gaspe, Miguasha National Park, Amphibian Fossil From Germany, Micromelerpeton Sp.Indet

Nummulites from the Cenozoic

Five thousand year_old cave paintings in Lass Geel caves, Somaliland, northern Somalia, Africa

Archaeopteryx (Archaeopteryx lithographica) bird fossil, 150 million year old, Solnhofen, Bavaria, Germany

Mayfly Larvae, Paleociradtae ephemmeropsis, Lower Cretaceous, China, Asia

Five million year old fossil jaw bone of an extinct short-necked giraffe (Sivathere), West coast fossil park, South Africa

Jacutophyton fossil, stromatolites, Precambrian Period.

In the Ellerhoop arboretum, giant ammonite, Pinneberg district, Germany, Europe

Petroglyph of an Onyx, Ait Ouazik rock site, late Neolithic, Morocco, Africa

Peru, Nazca, Aerial view of geoglyphs of Nazca and Palpa, UNESCO World Heritage

Fossilized dinosaur skull of Parasaurolophus walkeri against white background

petroglifo de un Onyx, yacimiento rupestre de Aït Ouazik, finales del Neolítico, Marruecos, Africa.

Dinosaur exhibits, Royal Tyrrell Museum, Drumheller, Alberta, Canada, North America

Fossils, accumulation of Middle-Ordovician bivalves from Llanvirn Series of Builth-Llandrindod Wells Inlier (470mya), Camnant Ravine, Powys, Wales

Primeval salmon, fossil or petrifaction

Encrinus liliiformis fossil, Crinoidea, Germany.

Azerbaijan, Near Baku, Gobustan, Neolithic Rock Dramings, 12,000 Yrs Old

Devonian Phacops rana milleri trilobite demonstrating shedding of the exoskeleton, Silica Formation, Sylvania, Ohio.

Fossils - Invertebrates. Marine worm form in Miocene rock, Oenigen, Switzerland

Horseshoe Crab (Mesolimulus walchi) fossil, about 150 million years old, Solnhofen, Bavaria, Germany

Indeterminate Pycnodont fish : Large grinder-toothed fish from the Valanginian of Provence 70cm. Luc Ebbo collection. Paleogalerie, Salignac. Ebbo collection

Left to right: An animal fosil and non-animal fosil

Large specimen of Paleorhynchus glarisianus from the Alpine Oligocene. 1.30m. Luc Ebbo collection. Paleogalerie, Salignac. Ebbo collection

Fossil Wasp - Eocene (Paleovespa florissantentia). Fossil beds National Monument, Colorado, USA.

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