Fossils Gallery


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The photos on this page shows some examples of fossils in my collection, all found by myself during 20 years of collecting.
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sharks other vertebrates sea urchins anthropoda cephalopods shells and snails plants


fossil sharkteeth from the Neogene of Antwerp, Belgium
photo: sharkteeth galeocerdo (jpeg 18k) photo: sharktooth carcharodon (jpeg 18k)
teeth of Galeocerdo sp. (Miocene)
height of left tooth = 18 mm
photo: sharkteeth nothorhynchus (jpeg 18k)
teeth of Notorhynchus primigenius (Miocene)
upper left tooth = 20 x 25 mm
tooth of Carcharodon carcharias (Pliocene)
height = 66 mm

fossil sharkteeth from the Maastrichtian of Maastricht, The Netherlands
(more of these teeth om my cretaceous sharkteeth - site !!)
photo: sharktooth pseudocorax (jpeg 12k) photo: sharkteeth paleohypotodus and archaeolamna  (jpeg 8k)
tooth of Pseudocorax affinis
height = 15 mm
Paleohypotodus bronni (left) and Archaeolamna kopingensis (right)
height of left tooth = 27 mm
photo: sharktooth synechodus (jpeg 7k) photo: sharkteeth serratolamna (jpeg 28k)
tooth of Synechodus cf. lerichei
height = 7 mm
teeth of Serratolamna serrata
height of left tooth = 14 mm
photo: sharktooth ganopristis (jpeg 7k)
rostral tooth of Ganopristis leptodon
length = 28 mm

other vertebrates
photo: fish teeth anomoeodus (jpeg 32k) photo: crocodile tooth teleosaurus (jpeg 11k)
48 x 32 mm limestone block with part of dentition of fish Anomoeodus (21 mm)
(Maastrichtian of Maastricht, the Netherlands)
tooth of Teleosaurus sp. - a marine crocodile
(Bathonian of northern France)
width = 11 mm

fossil sea urchins
photo: sea urchin echinolampas (jpeg 24k) photo: sea urchin holectypus (jpeg 25k)
Echinolampas affinis - height = 37 mm
(middle Eocene of Belgium)
photo: sea urchin phyllobrissus (jpeg 9k)
Phyllobrissus pulvinatus - height = 26 mm
(Callovian of Normandy, France)
9 x 9 cm limestone block with Holectypus corallinus (30 mm)
and oyster Actinostreon
(Kimmeridgian of central Poland)
photo: sea urchin hemicidaris (jpeg 13k) photo: sea urchin stomechinus (jpeg 16k)
Hemicidaris - 29 mm
(Kimmeridgian of central Poland)
Stomechinus - 35 mm
(Kimmeridgian of central Poland)
photo: sea urchin pygurus (jpeg 17k) photo: sea urchin tetragamma (jpeg 17k)
Pygurus jurensis - height = 26 mm
(Kimmeridgian of Osnabrück region, northern Germany)
Tetragamma variolare - 32 mm
(Cenomanian of Normandy, France)

fossil anthropoda
photo: trilobite phacops (jpeg 14k) photo: crab etyus (jpeg 23k)
rolled specimen of trilobite Phacops
(middle Devonian of Germany)
width = 22 mm
carapax of crab Etyus martini
(Albian of northern France)
width = 25 mm

fossil cephalopods: ammonites and belemnites
photo: ammonite scaphites (jpeg 8k) photo: ammonite gravesia (jpeg 21k)
Hoploscaphites constrictus - 32 mm
(Maastrichtian of Maastricht,
The Netherlands)
photo: ammonite cardioceras (jpeg 11k)
Cardioceras - 20 mm
(lower Oxfordian of central Poland)
Gravesia portlandica - 130 mm
(Portlandian of northern Burgundy, France)
photo: ammonite peltoceratoides (jpeg 16k) photo: ammonite (jpeg 31k)
? Peltoceratoides sp. - 58 mm
(lower Oxfordian of central Poland)
unindentified ammonite - 75 mm
(Callovian of Loire region, western France)
photo: belemnite hibolites (jpeg 9k)
? Hibolites hastatus
(Oxfordian of Bayern, Germany)
length = 105 mm

fossil shells and snails
photo: oyster gryphaea (jpeg 14k) photo: snail faunus (jpeg 13k)
oyster Gryphaea dilatata
(Oxfordian of Normandy, France)
length left specimen = 100 mm
photo: snail volutoderma (jpeg 24k)
? Volutoderma elongata
(Cenomanian of Alpes-Maritimes, SE France)
length = 100 mm
Faunus cf. clavosus
(upper Eocene of northern France)
height = 90 mm

fossil plants
photo: carboniferous fern mariopteris (jpeg 26k) photo: carboniferous fern alethopteris (jpeg 25k)
fern Mariopteris cf. nervosa
(upper Carboniferous of the Netherlands)
105 x 80 mm
fern Alethopteris decurrens
(upper Carboniferous of the Netherlands)
65 x 60 mm

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Last updated June 20th, 2018