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Museum & Rare Fossils Across Geologic Time

Precambrian Fossils

Massive Girvanella Michigan Stromatolites Lower Proterozoic 2.2 to 2.4 billion years old Chocolay Group, Northern Michigan	Pilbaria perplexa Australian Stromatolites Paleoproterozoic 2.0 billion years old Wyloo Group, Ashburton Basin, Australia	Nemaia Medusoid Fossils Vendian White Sea Region, Russia	Oldest Strelley Pool Stromatolites Paleoarchaean 3.43 Billion Years Old Strelley Pool Formation, Pilbara, Western Australia

Brecciated Banded Iron Neoarchaean 2.73 Billion Years Old Jackson County Iron Formation, Wisconsin	Horodyskia williamsi Oldest Multicellular Fossils Paleoproterozoic 1.4 billion years old Backdoor Formation, Western Australia
Cambrian Fossils

Marella splendens Cambrian Burgess Shale	Leanchoilia superlata Arthropod Cambrian Burgess Shale	Rare Leanchoilia cf superlata Arthropod Cambrian House Range, Utah	Rare Burgessochaeta Polychaete Annelid Cambrian Stephen Formation, Burgess Shale, Canada

Tuzoia polleni Phyllocarid Cambrian British Columbia, Canada	Burgessia bella Arthropod Cambrian Burgess Shale, Canada	Cardiodictyon Lobopodia & Maotianshania Nematomorpha Early Cambrian Chengjiang China	Sidneyia Arthropod Cambrian Weeks Formation, Utah

Weeks Trilobites Death Assemblage Cambrian Weeks Formation, Utah	Tuzoia sinensis Phyllocarid Early Cambrian Chengjiang China	Luolishania longicruris Lobopodia Early Cambrian Chengjiang China	Cricocosmia Nematomorph Fossils Mass Death Early Cambrian Chengjiang China

Leanchoilia illecebrosa Opabinid Arthropod Early Cambrian Chengjiang China	Priapulida Worm Cambrian Weeks Formation, Utah	Onychodictyon ferox Lobopodian Early Cambrian Chengjiang China	Anomalocaris Oral Disc Cambrian House Range, Utah

Microdictyon sinicum Lobopodia Early Cambrian Chengjiang China	Clypecaris pteroidea Arthropod Early Cambrian Chengjiang China	Redlichia Trilobite with Antenna Early Cambrian Chengjiang Biota	Selkirkia willoughbyi Cambrian Marjum Formation, Utah

Yannanozoon lividum, Earliest Known Hemichordate from Chengjiang "in association with Eldonia eumorpha" Early Cambrian Chengjiang China		Cindarella eucalla, Maotianshan Shales Arthropod Chengjiang China

Onychodictyon Lobopodian Early Cambrian Chengjiang Biota	Acanthomeridion serratum Early Cambrian Chengjiang Biota	Enigmatic Creature Possible Phyllocarid Cambrian Arthropod House Range, Utah	Tricrepicephalus coria Trilobite Cambrian Weeks Formation, Utah

Xandarella spectaculum Arthropod Early Cambrian Chengjiang Biota	Chancelloria pentacta Middle Cambrian Wheeler Shale, Utah	Luolishania longicruris Lobopodians Early Cambrian Chengjiang Biota	Candaspis perfecta Arthropod Early Cambrian Burgess Shale

Rare Bathyuriscus formosus Trilobite Cambrian Meagher Shale, Montana	Giant Hemirhodon amplipyge Trilobite Cambrian Marjum Formation, Utah	Mesonacis fremonti Redlichiid Trilobite Early Cambrian Latham Shale, California	Primicaris larvaformis Arthropod Early Cambrian Chengjiang Biota

Protichnites & Diplichnites Ichnofossils Cambrian Blackberry Hill, Wisconsin	Aff Psedosaukianda lata Redlichiid Trilobite Early Cambrian Issafen, Morocco
Ordovician Fossils

Triarthrus Trilobite with Legs & Antenna Preserved Ordovician Lorraine Shale, New York	Pyritized Triarthrus Trilobite Ordovician Lorraine Shale, New York	Pleurocystites Cystoids Death Assemblage Ordovician Sugar River Formation, New York	Declivolithus cf. alfredi Asaphid Trilobite Ordovician Ourzazate, Morocco

Eccoptochile mariana Trilobites Death Assemblage Ordovician Taychoute, Morocco	Undescribed Harpides Museum Trilobites Fezouata Formation, Ordovician Taychoute, Morocco	Dionide mareki Family Calymenidae Ordovician Valongo Formation, Portugal
Silurian Fossils

Ceratiocaris papilio Phyllocarids Silurian Leshmagow, Scotland	Eurypterus remipes Sea Scorpion Silurian Bertie Group, New York	Scyphocrinites elegans Crinoid Mass Mortality Silurian Alnif, Morocco	Arctinurus boltoni Family Lichidae Rochester Shale Formation, New York
Devonian Fossils

Huntoniatonia (Huntonia) huntonensis Trilobite by Bob Carroll Devonian Haragan Formation Oklahoma		Urasterella verruculosa Ophiuroid Lower Devonian Bundenbach, Germany	Devonian Armored Fossil Fish Bothriolepis Upper Devonian Quebec, Canada

Triacrinus sp.Crinoids Devonian Hunsrück Slate, Germany	Osteolepis Paleozoic Fish Devonian Orkney, Scotland	Climatius Acanthodian Fish Devonian Caithness, Scotland	Comura bultyncki Trilobite Devonian, Morocco

Encrinaster roemeri Starfish Bundenbach Hunstrück Slate, Germany	Heliopyge Trilobite Issimour, Alnif, Morocco	Scaumenacia curta Lungfish Fossil Devonian Escumiac Bay, Quebec, Canada	Nahecaris steurtzi Phyllocarid Fossil Devonian Hunsrück Slate, Germany

Pattenaspis = Cephalaspis whiteii Lower Devonian Wales, United Kingdom	Drotops megalomanicus Trilobite Devonian Alnif, Morocco	Quadrops flexuosa Trilobite Devonian Ofaten, Morocco	Crotalocephalus Cheirurid Trilobite Devonian Alnif Morocco

Platyscutellum Trilobite Order Corynexochida Family Styginidae Devonian Foum Ziguid	Microbrachius dicki Antiarch Placodermi Devonian Caithness, Scotland	Eusthenopteron foordi Tetrapod Ancestor Devonian Escumiac Bay, Quebec, Canada	Walliserops hammi Trilobite Devonian Order Phacopida Family Acastidae Foum Ziguid, Morocco

Walliserops trifurcatus Trilobite Devonian Order Phacopida Family Acastidae Foum Ziguid, Morocco	Rare Tropidocoryphe amuri Trilobite Devonian Order Proetida Family Tropidocoryphidae Aatchana, Morocco	Paralejurus spatuliformis Devonian Order Corynexochida Family Styginidae Mrakib, Alnif, Morocco	Osteolepis macrolepidotus Tetrapod Ancestor Devonian Cruaday Quarry, Orkney, Scotland

Koneprusia aff dahmani Devonian Order Odontopleurida Family Odontopleuridae Jebel Oufaten, Morocco
Carboniferous Fossils

Euproops rotundatus Horseshoe Crab Carboniferous Lancashire, UK	Rare Xyloiulus Millipede Carboniferous Wigham, England	Caridosuctor populosum Carboniferous Bear Gulch, Montana	Guildayichthys carnegiei Mississippian Bear Gulch, Montana

Mamayocaris jaskoskii Crustacean Pennsylvanian Mazon Creek, Illinois	Aenigmacaris cornigerum Shrimp Carboniferous Bear Gulch, Montana	Lepidasterella Starfish Fossil Mississippian Bear Gulch Limestone

Male Echinochimaera meltoni Fish Fossil Mississippian Bear Gulch Limestone	Female Echinochimaera meltoni Fish Fossil Mississippian Bear Gulch Limestone
Permian Fossils

Glossopteris browniana Permian New South Wales, Australia
Triassic Fossils

Whiteia woodwardi Coelacanth Triassic Karroo Formation, Madagascar	Traumatocrinus Crinoids Triassic Guizhou Province China
Jurassic Fossils

Mesolimulus walchi Horseshoe Crab Fossil Late Jurassic Solnhofen, Germany	Araucaria mirabilis Jurassic Patgonia, Argentina	Hexaganites Dipteran Late Jurassic Solnhofen, Germany	Cycleryon Eryonid Crab Fossil Jurassic Solnhofen, Germany

Eryon arctiformis Lobster Fossil Jurassic Solnhofen, Germany	Stenophlebia latreilli Dragonfly Jurassic Solnhofen, Germany	Palaeocoma egertoni Brittlestar Fossil Jurassic Dorset, UK
Cretaceous Fossils

Rhinobatos hakelensis Guitarfish Fossil Cretaceous Lebanese Lagerstatte	Prionolepis cataphractus Fish within Fish Cretaceous Lebanese Lagerstatte	Paleoctopus newboldi Octopus Cretaceous Lebanese Lagerstatte	Araripescorpius Scorpion Fossil Lower Cretaceous Santana Formation, Brazil

Shrimp in Viper Fish Cretaceous Lebanese Lagerstatte	Paratriakis Fossil Shark Cretaceous Lebanese Lagerstatte	Coccodus insignis Crusher Fossil Fish Cretaceous Lebanese Lagerstatte	Polychaete Worm Fossil Cretaceous Lebanese Lagerstatte

Rhinobatos Guitarfish Cretaceous Lebanese Lagerstatte	Liaoxitriton zhongjiani Amphibian Cretaceous, Liaoning, China	Incertae sedis; gen. indet, lindstroemi Cretaceous Lebanese Lagerstatte	Jersimantis luzzii Praying Mantis in Amber Cretaceous Raritan Formation, New Jersey
Paleogene Fossils

Heliobatis radians Skate Fish Fossil Eocene Green River Formation, Wyoming	Messelornis cristata Eocene Messel Pit, Germany	Astropecten matilijaensis Eocene Cozy Dell Formation, California	Rare Argyropelecus Fossil Fish Oligocene Carpathian Mountains. Poland

Eporeodon major Oreodont Oligocene Brule Formation, Nebraska	Eporeodon major Oreodont Oligocene Brule Formation, Nebraska	Merycoidodon Oreodont Oligocene Brule Formation, Nebraska
Neogene Fossils

Hippocampus ramulosus Fossil Seahorse Lower Pliocene Marecchia River Formation, , Italy	Neptunus granulatus Crab Fossil Miocene Sardinia, Italy	Ranilia sp. c.f. muriceta Crab Pliocene Liberty County, Florida	Amber Insects Pliocene South America

Phasmida Insect Fossil in Fossil Amber Pliocene South America

Museum Fossils

Museum & Rare Fossils Across Geologic Time

Precambrian Fossils

Cambrian Fossils

Ordovician Fossils

Silurian Fossils

Devonian Fossils

Carboniferous Fossils

Permian Fossils

Triassic Fossils

Jurassic Fossils

Cretaceous Fossils

Paleogene Fossils

Neogene Fossils