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| Acquisition # | Image | Common Name | Species Name | Period (Epoch) | Location |
| 427 |  |
Trace Fossil - Bird Tracks | Paleogene (Eocene) | Green River Formation | |
| 257 & 258 |  |
Fern Leaf - positive and negative impressions | Alethopteris seili | Pennsylvanian | Mazon Creek, Illinois |
| 368 |  |
Redwood Tree Leaf - carbon film impression | Sequoia sp. | unknown | |
| 157 |  |
Horn Corals - replaced with red agate | Lophophyllum sp. | Devonian | Utah |
| 456 |  |
Redwood Leaf - impressions in limonite | Dendraster venturensis | Neogene (Pliocene) | |
| 580 |  |
Beetle (predacious water beetle) - preserved in asphalt | Cybister explanatus | Neogene (Pleistocene) | Kern County, California |
| 624 |  |
Gastropod (snail) - internal sandstone mold | Neogene (Pleistocene) | Sonora, Mexico | |
| 1279 |  |
Mammal Bone | Unidentified | Paleogene (Oligocene) | South Dakota |
| 1305 & 1306 |  |
Brachiopod - pyrite replacement (left: acid etched; right: natural) | Paraspirifer bqwenockeri | Devonian | Silica Shale, Lucas County, Ohio |
| F-01 |  |
Whale bone- cross section showing bone cells, some filled with mud | |||
| F-02 |  |
Redwood - wood fragment | |||
| F-03 |  |
Tree branch - showing external shape | |||
| F-04 |  |
Boring Clam Burrows | Pholads sp. | ||
| F-05 |  |
Amber with insect parts | |||
| F-06 |  |
Scallop assemblage - external impressions in mudstone | |||
| F-07 |  |
Turret shell - internal sandstone mold | |||
| F-08 |  |
Olive shell - internal sandstone mold | |||
| F-09 |  |
Clam (Eel river) - showing traces of original shell | |||
| F-10 |  |
Clam assemblage (Eel river) - showing traces of original shell | |||
| HSU-41 |  |
Coprolite - fossil cast of excrement |
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