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4. TYPE fossil- Coral perched on a rudist over 100 million years ago.

5. Sea urchin in distress over 300 million years ago.

6. Ball-like holdfast or float used by some sea lilies over 400 million years ago.

7. Open-coiled nautiloid swimming around north Texas about 300 million years ago.

8. TYPE fossil- 40 million year old crab

9. Pronged marine snail about 100 million years old.

10. Stony coral alive about 100 million years ago

11. Clam, closed about 100 million years ago.

12. Enigmatic rudist ‘clam’, coiled over 100 million years ago

13. Coiled cephalopod roamed the sea about 85 million years ago.

14. Ammonite collected by Keith Young

15. Oddly coiled ammonite.

16. Famous starfish slab.

17. Bivalve hinge line.

18. Exogyrid oyster- a transitional variety.

19. Leaves from the swamps of the Pennsylvanian.

20. Root structure from 300 million year old swamp trees.

21. Ice Age beetle trapped in the tar.

22. Ammonite-let us know if YOU collected this on a 610 field trip.

23. Wood bored by marine bivalves 90 million years ago. Figure that out?

24. TYPE fossil coral from western Texas.

25. Impression and cast of a trilobite.

26. Intricate wall structure of this rudist.

27. Beautifully preserved calcareous green algae.

28. TYPE-Decapod crawled around the seafloor near Denton over 100 million years ago.

29. A solitary coral from the seas of Texas – about 100 million years ago.

30. Aptly called the ‘Denture Clam’.

31. Robust sea urchin together with one of it’s spines.

32. Jelly fish impressions, rare clues of soft bodied organisms.

33. Planispiral marine snail lived about 300 million years ago

34. Predator in the Paleozoic seas about 300 million years ago.

35. TYPE- These oysters are sometimes called Texas toenails.

36. Flock of marine snails

37. Our twitter image!

38. A bivalve.

39. Sea urchin

40. Looking down on the apex of a marine snail

41. Tabulate coral from northern Texas

42. Brachiopod bored by barnacles.

43. Delicate marine snail.

44. Ammonite described by Cragin in the Geological Survey of Texas.

45. TYPE- bivalve

46. Slab with bivalve fossil.

47. Marine snails collected by Taff in 1892.

48. Oak leaves preserved in the fine layers of ash (bentonite).

49. Marine snail collected by Harris before 1895.

50. Eurekablastus ninemilensis, new genus and new species.

51. Trilobite

52. Long armed sea lily

53. This rudist even has the little capping valve.

54. TYPE-Salenia scotti

55. Jelly fish were here!

56. Robust ammonite

57. Stunning color from the preserved nacreous layer.

58. Classic field indicators of the Glen Rose Formation.

59. Carnivorous snail from the Stone City Formation.

60. TYPE-Spiny lobster described by Stenzel in 1945.

61. This sponge was found just like this, broken but in position.

62. Rhombiferan from the Bromide Formation.

63. Loriolia texana

64. Leptosalenia stenzeli

65. Magnificent head of coral, 100 million years ago, New Braunfels, TX