Fossil
kit 1 contains 12 hand-picked fossils as shown below. Each fossil
is individually bagged with a 4 1/4 by 2 1/2 inch colored card
providing taxonomic, geologic time, and other information pertinent
to the fossils. The estimated retail value of the fossils alone
in this kit, if separately bought, is some $45.
Click
the links to see enlargements of individual fossils and description
cards; these individual pages can also be printed for classroom
use. |
Cambrian |
Silurian |
Devonian |
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Lower
Pennsylvanian (Carboniferous) |
Triassic
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Jurassic |
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Jurassic |
Jurassic
to Cretaceous |
Cretaceous |
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Ammonite
Fossil
Phylum Mollusca; Class Cephalopoda; Subclass: Ammonoidea
(all ammonites are extinct)
Gourama, Morocco |
Dinosaur
Bone
Phylum Chordata; Class Sauropsida; Subclass Diapsida;
Superorder Dinosauria; Order Saurischia;
North America |
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Cretaceous |
Late
Cretaceous |
Eocene |
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Bivalve
Oyster Fossil
Ilymatogyra arietina (Roemer, 1849)
Phylum Mollusca; Class Bivalvia (Oysters)
Upper Washita Group, Del Rio Formation, Austin, Texas |
Theropod
Dinosaur Egg Shell
Oviraptor sp.
Phylum Chordata; Class Sauropsida; Subclass Diapsida;
Superorder Dinosauria; Order Saurischia; Suborder Theropoda
Asia |
Fossil
Shark Tooth
Phylum Chordata; Subphylum: Vertebrata; Class:
Chondrichthyes
North Africa |