Crinoid Plate Fossil 450-600 Million Years Old

Moroccan fossil named Crinoid, which are about 450 million years old. Crinoid fossils, or sea lilies are members of the Echinodermata phylum. Our Crinoi...

Crinoids, commonly known as sea lilies and are members of the Echinodermata phylum along with starfish and sea urchins. This particular Crinoid plate fossil i...

Another large Crinoid fossil from our collection. Crinoids are more commonly known as sea lilies and are members of the Echinodermata phylum with the st...

Created by the Old Plank group of artisans, this spectacular coffee table base is 24-karat gold over solid bronze. The design is free-form so every base is slightly different; call i...

Rustic wood carving of a woman holding a child. The carving is from Spain and we were told it dates from the late 1600s and it looks that hold in real life. The woman appears to be m...

Life-sized, mohair Steiff Elk, probably from the 1960s. Steiff referred to these life-size stuffed creatures as, “studio animals” and were very expensive when new. As I child, we wou...

An exceptional fossilized dragonfly from Solnhofen in Germany. This wonderful specimen dates 150 Million Years old making it the ultimate conversatio...

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Fossil sea urchin. Origin: Morocco. Period: Jurassic (170 Million Years old).

This outstanding fossilised skeleton is that of the ancestral crocodile species Steneosaurus bollensis that lived during the early Jurassic period. The skeleton, complete with armoured plates, has been exquisitely preserved and recovered from the Holzmaden Oil Shale of south Germany. The crocodile was once buried in fine, muddy sediment 195 million years ago at the bottom of the Tethys Ocean, which once existed between Europe and Africa. The calm, deep water provided a rare anoxic (without oxygen) environment, which prevented the skeleton from any significant decomposition before burial. The mud has since been compressed into oil shale, leaving the immense skeleton completely in-tact. This specimen is one of the few skeletons of Steneosaurus bollensis ever to be discovered. We can deduce much about the life of this reptile from the size and perfect preservation of the piece. Similar to present-day crocodiles, we can see that the two front limbs of the Steneosaurus are much shorter than the back two. This indicates that crocodile ancestors were bipedal; indeed, we believe that crocodiles evolved from the same reptile species as the dinosaurs and airborne pterosaurs. Dinosaurs ruled the lands during the late Triassic and early Jurassic. This made terrestrial life increasingly difficult for ancestral crocodiles, as there were many predators and prey was scarce. However, the seas were rich in fish, shellfish, starfish, crabs, squid… You can even see fossil belemnite guards (bullet shells of squid-like organisms) and the beautiful spiral shells of ammonites preserved around the crocodile skeleton...

Oak trees have accompanied mankind throughout the colonisation of Europe by the end of the last ice age and it is precisely from history, thousand of years old, that today we draw our creations. These hollow vessels...

This rare fossil is the well-defined, well-preserved tail spike of a Stegosaurus from the Jurassic period approximately 145-196 million years ago. Seldom will you come across such a ...