Posts treating: "museum specimen"
Monday, 22 December 2014
Image of a Harpes perradiatus trilobite fossil. This creature existed in the Middle Devonain Period.
While visiting the Gallery of Natural History at the Arizona Historical Society Museum at Papago Park (1300 N. College Ave, Tempe Arizona 85281) I saw this fossil specimen (AHS-NH#20671).
It was found in what is now Alnif, Morocco, North Africa.
Images of museum specimen taken October
While visiting the Gallery of Natural History at the Arizona Historical Society Museum at Papago Park (1300 N. College Ave, Tempe Arizona 85281) I saw fossil specimen (AHS-NH#9854) Encope micorpora (Agassiz, 1841) sand dollar. Creatures like this are alive today and existed back to the Pliocene This one was found in El Golfo, Mexico.
Image of museum specimen taken October 2014.
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While visiting the Gallery of Natural History at the Arizona Historical Society Museum at Papago Park (1300 N. College Ave, Tempe Arizona 85281) I saw fossil specimen (AHS-NH#9854) Clypeus plotii (Leske, 1778) sea urchin fossil. This creature existed in the Jurassic Period (Bajocian to Oxfordian). They were found in what is now Europe and North Africa.
Images of museum specimen taken
While touring the Natural History section of the Arizona Historical Society Museum at Papago Park (1300 N. College Ave, Tempe Arizona 85281) I saw fossil specimen (AHS-NH#11646) from Chinle Formation of Holbrook, Navajo County, Arizona USA. It is a Woodworthia arizonica Jeffrey 1910 tree fossil. This plant existed in the Upper or Late Triassic Period.
Images of museum specimen
This fossil fish is called Nematonotus longispinus. It was found in the Hjoula limestones of Lebanon. The fossil dates to the Upper Cretaceous Period (Cenomanian Stage). Learn more about Lebanese fish fossils at collectingfossils.org.The museum specimen's accession number is CMC VP9876.This fossil was part of the Ultimate Dinosaurs: Giants from Gondwana exhibit at the Museum of Natural History and Science in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was photographed in August [...]
This fossil fish is called Ctenothrissa signifer. It was found in the Hjoula limestones of Lebanon. The fossil dates to the Upper Cretaceous Period (Cenomanian Stage). This fish is of the order Ctenothrissiformes in the family Ctenothrissidae. Learn more about Lebanese fish fossils at collectingfossils.org.The museum specimen's accession number is CMC VP9875.This fossil was part of the Ultimate Dinosaurs: Giants from Gondwana exhibit at the Museum of Natural [...]
Archaeopteryx lithographica Fossil Cast found in the Sölnhofen Formation of Bavaria, Germany. This plate shows both the creature's skeleton and impressions of its feathers. It dates to the Upper Jurassic Period (Tithonian stage). This fossil is quite stunning.It appears to be a transitional fossil between dinosaurs and birds.The museum specimen's accession number is CMC VP9879?.This fossil was part of the Ultimate Dinosaurs: Giants from Gondwana exhibit at the Museum of Natural [...]
This fossil fish is called Aipichthys velifer. It was found in the Hjoula limestones of Lebanon. The fossil dates to the Upper Cretaceous Period (Cenomanian Stage). This fish is of the order Beryciformes in the family Dinopterigidae. Learn more about Lebanese fish fossils at collectingfossils.org.The museum specimen's accession number is CMC VP9873.This fossil was part of the Ultimate Dinosaurs: Giants from Gondwana exhibit at the Museum of Natural History and [...]
Last week I posted a short blog about the UA Mineral Museum [right, UA Flandreau Science Center, home of the Mineral Museum] selling off duplicate specimens and those not consistent with the main collection, to raise operating and endowment funds. This morning's Arizona Star offers more details on the sale. Marcus Origlieri is handling the minerals through his business, Mineral Zone, which
If you've got a bit of spare time, the library of the Field Museum's flickr photostream is well worth a look. It features a nifty set of photos from the days before the institution moved to its current home on the Lake Michigan Waterfront. During its first couple decades, it was located on the spot where the Museum of Science Industry stands presently.Those were the days before the well-populated dinosaur halls we're lucky enough to wander through today. One Mesozoic denizen of the Field was a [...]
This brachiopod was found in the Waldron Shale of Clark County Indiana. It is a Silurian Period brachiopod that appears to be an Eospirifer radiatus. I used the Fossils of Ohio book pages 230-231 to get this identification. The book describes it as being from the Niagaran Series which is synonymous with the Waldron Shale. The brachiopod is not fully intact with one side partial broken off revealing solid shale and calcite crystals. Its dimensions are 3.5 cm long and [...]