The term fossil describes a wide range of natural artifacts. Generally speaking, a fossil is any evidence of past plant or animal life that is preserved in the material of the Earth’s crust. When most people speak of fossils they mean a specific subsection of this group – fossils in which the shape of the animal or plant has been preserved while the actual organic matter of its body is gone. These amazing remnants, which date to prehistoric times, were formed extremely slowly in dynamic geological processes. Fossils are available for sale online or over the phone. Visit our website www.sadighgallery.com or call our Toll Free Number 1(800)426-2007 to order.

1. The term fossil describes a wide range of natural artifacts. Generally speaking, a
fossil is any evidence of past plant or animal life that is preserved in the material
of the Earth’s crust. When most people speak of fossils they mean a specific
subsection of this group – fossils in which the shape of the animal or plant has
been preserved while the actual organic matter of its body is gone. These amaz-
ing remnants, which date to prehistoric times, were formed extremely slowly in
dynamic geological processes.
The following are some of the fossils we have in our collection.
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FOSSILS
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2. BELEMNITES ITEM NO. 30544
Belemnites are a member of an extinct
group of cephalopods, animals relat-
ed to the modern squid and octopus
but possessing a large internal shell.
They first appeared about 345 Million
years ago, Mississippian Period, and
became extinct during the Eocene
Epoch, which ended about 38 Mil-
lion years ago. The internal shell was
straight in most species but was loosely
coiled in some. The shell was complex
in structure and served for support and
muscle attachment and as a hydro-
static device enabling the animal to
compensate for depth and its own
body weight.

3. Sharks first appeared in the Devonian
Period 400 million years ago. This shark
tooth belonged to the Megalodon,
an extinct species of shark that lived
approximately 15.9 to 2.6 million years
ago, during the Cenozoic Era. These
great sharks were believed to have
grown as long as 40 feet.
SHARK TOOTH ITEM NO. 42391

4. Ammonites are an extinct cephalopod
related to the nautilus. Their shells are
typically coiled in a flat spiral. Its name
comes from the Greek meaning
‘resemblance to a ram’s horn.’ The
smooth polished specimens are found
in Morocco and are from the Silurian
to Cretaceous periods, approximately
450 million years ago. The rougher
variety is a limestone ammonite found
in Great Britain from the Jurassic pe-
riod, 170 million years ago.
AMMONITES ITEM NO. 41765

5. The sand dollars are one of the most
unusual of all marine life and they are
about 12 million years old. They are re-
lated to sea urchins and star fish. Sand
dollars are prominent in various religious
folklores. For example, in Christianity,
the five slits on the edge of the shell is
said to represent the five wounds on
the body of Christ. There is an Easter
lily design in the center of the top with
a five pointed star in its center, star of
Bethlehem. On the back is an outline of
the poinsettia, the Christmas flower.
SAND DOLLARS ITEM NO. 30543

6. Stegosaurus dinosaur egg from the
Henan Provenance, China, from the
Cretaceous Period, 65 Million years
ago.
Stegosaurus was a herbivorous “bird-
hipped” dinosaur they were widely
distributed from the United States to
China. They laid clutches of relatively
small eggs in shallow holes scraped in
the ground. They may have been cov-
ered with sand and left to hatch in the
warmth of the sun.
DINOSAUR EGG ITEM NO. 46112

7. River, lake, and swamp deposits that
date from the Pennsylvanian period.
Ferns are one of the most ancient
plant groups surviving today. They
first appear in the fossil record in the
Carboniferous Period, over 300 million
years ago. Ferns are now confined to
fairly wet areas but once dominated
the Earth’s forests. Some of these
deposits can be found in St. Clair,
Pennsylvania.
STONE FERN ITEM NO. 35890

8. Trilobites belonged to a group of ex-
tinct marine arthropods. They first arose
in the Cambrian Period (545 to 490
million years ago), and died out at the
end of the Permian Period (about 251
million years ago), probably as a result
of a lowering of the level of the sea.
The trilobite body is highly segmented,
and was divided into a head, a thorax,
and a tail. They had gills on their many
pairs of limbs, and compound eyes like
insects.
TRILOBITES ITEM NO. 617

9. Fossil fish in stone, with a well preserved
skeleton. This fossil is dated to about
10 Million Years Old, making it from the
Eocene Period. This particular speci-
men was found in Wyoming.
FOSSILIZED FISH ITEM NO. 46248

10. Group of 5 Fossils: 2 polished Ammo-
nites, 150-500 Million Years Old; 2 Trilo-
bites, one in stone. Upper, Ordovician
Period, Morocco, 450 Million Years Old;
Texagryphaea Mucronata, 125 Million
Years Old.
VARIOUS FOSSILS ITEM NO. 43184

11. Group of 8 Fossils: Attached to a board with a timeline for easy identification:
Trilobite, Algae, Crinoid Stems, Brachiopod, Pelecypod, Protozoan, Gastropod
and Oyster. 10 Million - 500 Million Years Old.
VARIOUS FOSSILS ITEM NO. 32214

12. Fossils are available for sale online or over the phone. Visit our website
www.sadighgallery.com or call our Toll Free Number 1(800)426-2007
to order.
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