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Apex Chert The Apex Chert is a flint-like rock from western Australia, which contains some of the oldest known fossils. The microscopic fossils are single-celled bacteria, 3,500 million years old, and contain no nucleus (prokaryotes). They are either sph
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Apex Chert The Apex Chert is a flint-like rock from western Australia, which contains some of the oldest known fossils. The microscopic fossils are single-celled bacteria, 3,500 million years old, and contain no nucleus (prokaryotes). They are either sph
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Stromalite Conophyton gargarnicus This stromatolite is 1,500 million years old and comes from Grenze in Mongolia. Mats of bacteria were sandwiched between layers of sediment. Precambrian Grenze, Mongolia Purchased LL. 12281 (Manchester Museum) Preca
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? Jellyfish Ediacara flindersi Ediacara Series, Precambrian Ediacara Hills, South Australia, Australia South Australia Museum, Adelaide (Exchange) Field Collection 21/03/1966 LL. 3047 (Manchester Museum) Because the earliest Precambrian animals were
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Trilobite Elrathia kingi Wheeler Shale Formation, Middle Cambrian Antelope Springs, Utah, USA S E Jones (Field Collection, 21/10/1966) LL. 3091 Cambrian (550-510 million years ago) The planet was warm, with few glaciers. Life was confined to the oce
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Graptolite with 2 branches back-to-back Diplograptus multidens Llanvirn, Ordovician Conway, Wales Robert Duckinfield Darbishire (Field Collection, 01/01/1942) L. 12151 (Manchester Museum) Ordovician (510-439 million years ago) The climate became wet
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Crinoid Periechocrinus monilifer Wenlock Limestone, Silurian Dudley, England Mrs Glass (Field Collection 1940) LL. 274 (Manchester Museum) Silurian (439-409 million years ago) As the ice age ended oceans became warmer and sea levels rose. Vast reef
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Jawless fish Cephalaspis lyelli Lower Old Red Sandstone, Lower Devonian Scotland R Cairns (Field Collection, 25/05/1893) L. 1376 (Manchester Museum)
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Model of jawless fish Cephalaspis walweyi Lower Old Red Sandstone, Lower Devonian LL. 12233 (Manchester Museum) Devonian (409-353 million years ago) In the wide rivers, freshwater lakes and shallow seas, fish became the first dominant group of verteb
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Brittle star. Encrinaster tischbeinianum Hunsruck Slates, Lower Devonian Bundenbach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany Purchased - Sturtz, B. (Field Collection, 02/05/1893) L. 1198 (Manchester Museum)
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Root System of Lycopsid Tree (Stigmaria ficoides) LL.11627 This massive tree stump from Bradford, Yorkshire, is a part of the Manchester Museum's fossil plants collection. It is from the Upper Carboniferous (Westphalian A) coal swamps that covered the no
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Fern frond Senftenbergia plumosa Carboniferous LL. 12084 (Manchester Museum)
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Upper jaw of mammal-like synapsid reptile Dimetrodon incivus Brier Creek Bone Bed, Permian Brier Creek, Texas, USA University of Michigan (Field Collection, 01/02/1916) L. 10963 (Manchester Museum)
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Skull of herbivorous, anapsid reptile (cast) Pareiasaurus sp. Karroo Beds, Upper Permian Karroo, South Africa (Field Collection, 16/10/1890) L.456 (Manchester Museum) Permian Reptiles Reptiles first evolved in the Carboniferous. By the Permian thre
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Skull of herbivorous, anapsid reptile (cast) Pareiasaurus sp. Karroo Beds, Upper Permian Karroo, South Africa (Field Collection, 16/10/1890) L.456 (Manchester Museum) Permian Reptiles Reptiles first evolved in the Carboniferous. By the Permian thre
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Skull of herbivorous, synapsid reptile. Dicynodon lissops Karroo Beds, Upper Permian South Africa Witwatersrand University (Exchange) (Field Collection, 26/10/1960) LL.2547 (Manchester Museum)
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Small marine diapsid reptile (cast) Lariosaurus balsami Middle Triasic Lake Como, Italy LL.11814 (Manchester Museum) Triasic (251-205 million years ago) The climate was hot, but with wet and dry seasons. Huge rivers developed that occasionally floode
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Bony armour of crocodile-like, diapsid reptile Stagonolepis robertsoni Triasic Elgin, Moray, Scotland David Meredith Seares Watson (Field Collection, 28/09/1908) L.8266 (Manchester Museum)
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Forearm (radius/ulna), wrist (carpus) and part of hand (manus) of carnivorous, diapsid reptile - the 'bird-crocodile' Ornithosuchus longidens Triasic Lossiemouth, Moray, Scotlland David Meredith Seares Watson (Field Collection, 28/09/1908) L.8271 (Ma
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Claw of small therapod dinosaur ('Raptor') Hell Creek Formation, Upper Cretaceous South Dakota, USA Highland Rock & Fossil (Purchase, 02/03/1999) LL. 12258 (Manchester Museum) Classifying Dinosaurs: Saurischians The saurischians have reptile-like hi
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Vertebra of therapod dinosaur Megalosaurus sp. Great Oolite, Middle Jurasic Stonesfield, Oxfordshire, England LL.11812 (Manchester Museum)
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Heel bone (calcaneum) of sauropod dinosaur? Hypselosaurus sp.? Cretaceous? Meigne-le-Voconte, Loire, France D R Crick (Field Collection) LL.12273 (Manchester Museum)
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Vertebra of sauropod dinosaur Camarasaurus sp. Wealdon, Lower Cretaceous (Field Collection, 25/01/2001) LL.12186 (Manchester Museum)
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Shoulder blade (scapula) of ornithopod dinosaur Iguanodon bernissartensis Wealdon, Lower Cretaceous Hastings, East Sussex, England Rev A Dixon (Field Collection, 23/10/1901) L.5651 (Manchester Museum)
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Extraordinary preservation! Awesome curator talk from Dr David Gelsthorpe this morning @mcrmuseum. This Moonfish, Mene rhombeus (No.: L.8154) Is from Monte Bolca in the Italian Alps
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More extraordinary preservation @mcrmuseum... this time from Solnhofen in Bavaria, Brittle Star, Ophioderma sp. (LL.15981)
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Nasal horn of Triceratops Triceratops horridus Hell Creek Formation, Upper Cretaceous Harding County, South Dakota, USA Paleosearch (Purchase, 02/03/1999) LL.12253 (Manchester Museum)
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Rib of ornithopod dinosaur Iguanadon sp. Portlandian/Wealden, Upper Jurassic/Lower Cretaceous Amberley, West Sussew, England Professor Sir William Boyd Dawkins (Field Collection) LL.12180 (Manchester Museum)
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Tail-spike of stegosaurus sp. Jurassic Utah, USA Highland Rock & Fossil (Purchase, 02/03/1999) LL.12259 (Manchester Museum)
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Bony armoured plates of ankylosaur (Cast) Ankylosaurus sp. Cretaceous Argentina Mrs April James (Field Collection, 08/04/1999) LL.12280 (Manchester Museum)
