The museum has other very interesting fossils to view
- ALGAE FOSSIL
Stromatolite
Stromatolites are the reason why we’re alive today! They are the fossils of the first blue-green algae that pumped oxygen into the sea and our atmosphere.
It is 3.5 billion years old. There are living stromatolites in Shark Bay in Australia.
- GORGEOUS TREE TRUNK
Auracaria Tree
This Auracaia tree fossil is 245 million to 200 million years old. It has a polished top which shows its beautiful colours. The sides shows its fossilised bark and one side has insect damage.
- BEAUTIFUL COLOURING
Orthoceras
Orthoceras was a straight shelled nautiloid that lived from 240 million years ago to 66 million years ago.
They are related to the modern squid, octopus, cuttlefish, and nautilus.
- CUTE LITTLE GOGGA
Trilobite
A trilobite is an invertebrate (no spine) creature that lived in the sea more than 550 million years ago, but are now extinct. They had hard shells and roamed the sea floor and coral reefs in search of food.
- FOSSILISED SNAIL SHELLS
Turritella agate
This is an amazing variety of agate that has the fossilised shells of Turritella, a little marine snail, preserved within the agate. They lived up to 50 million years ago.
I have both rough and polished Turritella agate in my museum.
- PERFECT LITTLE FISH
Green River fish fossil
This little fish fossil is from the Green River formation in America. It lived between 53.5 million and 48.5 million years ago. It looks just like the guppies that live in my fish tank.
- EXTINCT SHARK’S TOOTH
Shark tooth in matrix
These teeth come from the Otodus Obliquus which was an ancient Mackerel shark, a relative of the famous Megalodon. They lived around 60-40 million years ago.
Matrix is the sedimentary rock that has formed around the fossil.
- THEY STILL EXIST TODAY
Fossilised sand dollar
These ancient sand dollars lived between 145 million and 201 million years ago.
Sand dollars are still alive today. They live buried in the sand just below the low tide line.
