Views of the Mahantango

Today I have a couple of Orthoconic cephalopod sections to show you. Both come from the island of Oland which lies off the eastern coast of ...

Continuing with the theme from my last post, here are some pieces of coquinoid limestone that are composed primarily of Agnostus pisiformis ...

From my exchanges with my friend Christian in France, here are some Trilobite fossils that he collected in Sweden. First up are a couple o...

Another item that my friend Christian sent me was this giant Heliophylum coral. It is a little over 6in (15cm) long and nearly 3in (7.5cm) w...

I pestered my friend Christian to send me some Palaeocyclus fossils from Gotland and he came through in our last exchange. These are small l...

Back in 2011, I wrote about a fossil I'd found in Indiana called Eospirifer radiatus . Last year I received a package from my friend Chr...

Here is a piece of matrix that I received from my friend Christian that he collected in Brantevik, Sweden. It has many impressions and shell...

Finishing up my theme of fossils from the Ignaberga, Sweden area are these Belemnites. This first specimen is Actinocamax (Goniotheutis) q...

A couple more fossils from Ignaberga are some tiny echinoids. Echinogalerus peltiformis is an irregular echinoid. Adapical surface (top)...