Fossil Hunter Finds

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Shell and Gastropod
Pecten raimondi and ?
~ 5 million years old
Collected in Pleasanton, California by 8 year old Allie Nepil

 

Baleen Whale (head)
unkown species
Miocene
~ 5-15 million years old -

 

Sand Dollars
Astrodaspids spatiotus
Miocene
~ 10 million years old -

 

Rudist - Extinct Bi-valved Mollusk
Upper Cretaceous
~ 100 million years old -

 

Monanthesia stantoni
Cycadeoid
Upper Cretaceous
~ 100 million years-

also awarded The Fossil Find of the Year
more info...

 

Planolites
Trace Fossil
Early Cambrian
~ 260 million years-

 

Sand Dollars
Vaquerosella
Miocene
~ 15 million years- by Paul Kirkland

 

Gastropods
Early Pleistocene
~ 4 million years- by PaleoHunt

 

Trilobite-
Olenellus clarki
~560 million years - - more info...

 

Sand Dollar & Shell -
Astrodaspis brewerianus & Pecten raymondi
~5-10 million years -

 

Dragonfly nymph (naiad)
Lower Miocene ~13-16 million years - - more info

 

Brachiopod - Mickwitzia occidens (?)
Cambrian ~ 560 million years old-

 

Shark Tooth - Isurus planus
Middle Miocene ~ 10 - 12 million years -

 

Echinoderm - Dendraster (Sand Dollar)
Pliocene ~ 4 million years -

 

Trace Fossils - Unknown Species
Pre-Cambrian ~ 600 million years -

 

Trilobite - Wanneria walcottana (?)
Cambrian ~560 million years-

 

Trilobite - Olenellus clarki
Cambrian ~560 million years -