Posts treating: "Museo"
Thursday, 24 December 2015
Here is a picture of a Cancer sp. crab fossil at the Museo di Paleontologia at Sapienza University of Rome Italy. Creatures like this existed in the Pliocene Epoch of the Neogene Period.
Image taken in June
This picture is of a Terebratula brachiopod
fossil with an exposed lophophore. It was on display at
the Museo di Paleontologia at Sapienza University of Rome Italy.
Creatures like this existed at the time of the Pliocene Epoch of the Neogene Period.
Image taken in June
This picture is of a Pygope diphya brachiopod
fossil at
the Museo di Paleontologia at Sapienza University of Rome Italy.
Creatures like this existed at the time of the upper Jurassic Period. It was found in Tirolo of northern Italy.
Image taken in June
Louisville Area Fossils [2015-12-13 14:22:00]
recommend this post
(632 visits) 
Cretaceous; IT,US
This picture is of a Pereginella garganica brachiopod fossil at
the Museo di Paleontologia at Sapienza University of Rome Italy.
Creatures like this existed at the time of the Lower Cretaceous Period (Epoch Neocomian). It was found in Maiolica Formation (?) of Monte Gargano of southern Italy.
Image taken in June 2014.
Learn more at this site:
This picture is of an Otoceras sp. ammonite fossil at the Museo di Paleontologia at Sapienza University of Rome Italy. Creatures like this existed at the time of the Permian Period.
Image taken in June
Louisville Area Fossils [2015-12-09 04:30:00]
recommend this post
(238 visits) Jurassic; IT,DE,US
This picture is of a Hildaites serpentinus (Rein.) ammonite fossil at the Museo di Paleontologia at Sapienza University of Rome Italy. Creatures like this existed at the time of the early Jurassic Period (lower Toarcian). The fossil was found Holzmaden, Bavaria, Germany.
Image taken in June
Louisville Area Fossils [2015-12-06 13:02:00]
recommend this post
(601 visits) Jurassic; IT,US,DE
This picture is of a Schlotheimia angulata ammonite fossil at the Museo di Paleontologia at Sapienza University of Rome Italy. Creatures like this existed at the time of the early Jurassic Period (Lias). The fossil is probably from Germany.
Image taken in June
This picture is of an Ceratites nodosus (Brug.) ammonite fossil at the Museo di Paleontologia at Sapienza University of Rome Italy. Creatures like this existed at the time of the Triassic Period.
Image taken in June
This picture is of a Heterogyra sp. coral fossil at the Museo di Paleontologia at Sapienza University of Rome Italy. Corals like this existed at the time of the Oligocene epoch of the Paleogene Period. The fossil was found in the Castelgomberto Formation of Monte Grumi Italy.
Image taken in June
This picture is of a Castanea kubinyi plant fossil at the Museo di Paleontologia at Sapienza University of Rome Italy. Plants like this existed at the time of the Miocene epoch of the Neogene Period. The fossil was found in S. Angelo Senigallia Marche Italy.
Image taken in June
Louisville Area Fossils [2015-11-30 14:52:00]
recommend this post
(109 visits) Carboniferous; IT,US
This picture is of a Pecopteris nervous oblongata plant fossil at the Museo di Paleontologia at Sapienza University of Rome Italy. Plants like this existed at the time of the Carboniferous Period. The fossil was found in a unknown locality.
Image taken in June
Here is a picture of a Sphaeurilitides (Cusman) fossil at the Museo di Paleontologia at Sapienza University of Rome Italy. It was found in the Alps.
Image taken in June
This picture shows a Mytilus edulis (Gray, 1847) marine bivalve mollusc at the Museo di Paleontologia at Sapienza University of Rome Italy. Creatures like this exist in today's oceans. It is also known as the blue or common mussel.
Image taken in June 2014.
Info Sources:
Louisville Area Fossils [2014-10-28 02:30:00]
recommend this post
(165 visits) Cretaceous; IT,US
This image shows a Hippurites (Lamarck, 1801) marine bivalve mollusk fossil at the Museo di Paleontologia at Sapienza University of Rome Italy. Creatures like this existed in Late Cretaceous oceans.
Images taken in June 2014.
Info Sources:
Here is a picture of a Parvamussium cristatellum (Dautzenberg & Bavay, 1912) bivalve fossil at the Museo di Paleontologia at Sapienza University of Rome Italy. Creatures like this existed in the Miocene Epoch of Neogene Period. At the museum it was labeled as Amussium cristatum aka Pecten cristatum (Bavay, 1905).
Image taken in June 2014.
Info Sources:
Louisville Area Fossils [2014-10-16 03:30:00]
recommend this post
(152 visits) Quaternary; IT,US
This picture shows a Lithothamnium calcareous algae fossil. It was found in Cagliari Sardinia Italy. The fossil dates to the Quaternary Period. Specimen can be seen at the Museo di Paleontologia at Sapienza University of Rome Italy.
Image taken June
Originally this fossil was identified in 1864 or 1865 by John William Dawson as a Precambrian foraminifera. As it turns out it was metamorphosed bands of calcite and serpentine thus a pseudofossil. Specimen can be seen at the Museo di Paleontologia at Sapienza University of Rome Italy.
Image was taken in June 2014.
Learn more at:
An interesting fossil shown in this picture is of an Oreopithecus bambolii primate. The fossil can be found at the Museo di Paleontologia at Sapienza University of Rome Italy. Creatures like this existed in the Miocene Epoch of Neogene Period. Fossil was found in Baccinello Basin located in Tuscany, Italy. The area was known for its lignite mines. An intact Oreopithecus fossil skeleton
Louisville Area Fossils [2014-10-08 03:30:00]
recommend this post
(142 visits) Cretaceous; DE,IT,US
The picture displayed is of an Iereopsis polystoma sponge fossil at the Museo di Paleontologia at Sapienza University of Rome Italy. Creatures like this existed at the time of the Upper Cretaceous Period (Campanian). The fossil was found in Misburg, Hannover, Germany.
There appears to be a trace fossil on this sponge that I have seen something like before. We find these marks sometimes
Louisville Area Fossils [2014-10-04 03:30:00]
recommend this post
(125 visits) Cretaceous; DE,IT
The picture shown is of a Scytalia laevis sponge fossil at the Museo di Paleontologia at Sapienza University of Rome Italy. Creatures like this existed at the time of the Upper Cretaceous Period (Campanian). The fossil was found in Nettlingen, Hannover, Germany.
Image taken in June 2014.
Another German specimen can be seen at this fossil web site:
