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| Venus comb murex. Scientists speculate that the distinctively long and narrow spines are a protection against fish and other mollusks and prevent the mollusk from sinking into the soft, sandy mud where it is commonly found. Image ID: 12970 Species: Venus comb murex, Murex pecten | Glory of the Sea cone shell, brown form. The Glory of the Sea cone shell, once one of the rarest and most sought after of all seashells, remains the most famous and one of the most desireable shells for modern collectors. Image ID: 08732 Species: Glory of the Seas Cone, Conus gloriamaris | Scientific notations on a fossil, depicting different anatomical features. Seen at the American Museum of Natural History. Image ID: 11257 Location: American Museum of Natural History, New York City, USA |
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| Venus comb murex. Scientists speculate that the distinctively long and narrow spines are a protection against fish and other mollusks and prevent the mollusk from sinking into the soft, sandy mud where it is commonly found. Image ID: 12971 Species: Venus comb murex, Murex pecten | Thorny oyster or spiny oyster. Image ID: 12972 Species: Thorny oyster, Spondylus | Thorny oyster or spiny oyster. Image ID: 12973 Species: Thorny oyster, Spondylus |
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| Thorny oyster or spiny oyster. Image ID: 12974 Species: Thorny oyster, Spondylus | Thorny oyster or spiny oyster. Image ID: 12975 Species: Thorny oyster, Spondylus | Thorny oyster or spiny oyster. Image ID: 12976 Species: Thorny oyster, Spondylus |
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| Thorny oyster or spiny oyster. Image ID: 12977 Species: Thorny oyster, Spondylus | Thorny oyster or spiny oyster. Image ID: 12978 Species: Thorny oyster, Spondylus | Thorny oyster or spiny oyster. Image ID: 12979 Species: Thorny oyster, Spondylus |
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| Thorny oyster or spiny oyster. Image ID: 12980 Species: Thorny oyster, Spondylus | Fossil fish of the Eocene era, found in Fossil Lake, Green River Formation, Kemmerer, Wyoming. From a private collection. Order: Ellimmichyiformes: Family; Ellimmichthyidae; Diplomystus. Image ID: 21487 Species: Dipolomystus Location: Green River Formation, Kemmerer, Wyoming, USA | Fossil fish of the Eocene era, found in Fossil Lake, Green River Formation, Kemmerer, Wyoming. From a private collection. Order: Ellimmichyiformes: Family; Ellimmichthyidae; Diplomystus. Image ID: 21488 Species: Dipolomystus Location: Green River Formation, Kemmerer, Wyoming, USA |
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| Fossil fish of the Eocene era, found in Fossil Lake, Green River Formation, Kemmerer, Wyoming. From a private collection. Order: Ellimmichyiformes: Family; Ellimmichthyidae; Diplomystus. Image ID: 21489 Species: Dipolomystus Location: Green River Formation, Kemmerer, Wyoming, USA | Fossil sea scorpion, a eurypterid marine predator of the late Paleozoic (Ordovician to Permian). From the Fiddler's Green geologic formation, Silurian age (c. 410 mya). Image ID: 23093 Species: sea scorpion, Eurypterus remipes | Fossil fish, Prinolepis cataphractus, from the early Cretaceous, collected in Hajula, Lebanon. Image ID: 23094 Species: Prinolepis cataphractus |
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| Fossil stingray, Cyclobatis sp., from the early Cretaceous, collected in Hakel, Lebanon. Image ID: 23095 Species: Cyclobatis | Freshwater lizard fossil, collected in Ceara, Brazil, dated 130 million years old. Image ID: 20864 | Freshwater lizard fossil, collected in Ceara, Brazil, dated 130 million years old. Image ID: 20865 |
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| Fossil fish, collected in Green River Formation, Fossil Lake, Kemmerer, Wyoming, dated to the Eocene Era. Order: Ellimmichyiformes: Family; Ellimmichthyidae; Diplomystus dentatus. Image ID: 20866 Species: Diplomystus dentatus | Trilobitomorph fossil, aglaspic, collected at Weeks Formation, Millard County, Utah. Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Merostomata; Order: Aglaspida. Date to the Upper Middle Cambrian, Cenomanian Stage. Image ID: 20867 | Fossil fish, collected at the Green River Formation, Kemmerer, Wyoming, dated to the Eocene Era. Mioplosus are part of the perch family, predatory fishes. Image ID: 20868 Species: Mioplosus |
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| Fossil fish, collected at the Green River Formation, Kemmerer, Wyoming, dated to the Eocene Era. Image ID: 20869 Species: Phareodus | Ancient Roman coin, minted by Pinarius Natta (149 B.C.), (silver, denom/type: Denarius). Image ID: 06498 | Ancient Roman coin, minted by Pinarius Natta (149 B.C.), (silver, denom/type: Denarius). Image ID: 06499 |
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| Ancient Roman coin, minted by Sexulus Pompeius Fostlus (137 B.C.), (silver, denom/type: Denarius). Image ID: 06500 | Ancient Roman coin, minted by Sexulus Pompeius Fostlus (137 B.C.), (silver, denom/type: Denarius). Image ID: 06501 | Ancient Roman coin, minted by Man. Aemilius Lepidus (114/113 B.C.), (silver, denom/type: Denarius) (Denarius Cr-291/1, Syd 554, Aelimia 7. Obverse: head Roma, right. Reverse: Equestrian statue on triumphal arch, MN AEMILIO around, LEP between arches). Image ID: 06502 |
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