The #heteromorph #ammonite Polyptychoceras vancouverense from the late #Cretaceous #NanaimoGroup of Saanich Peninsula, Vancouver Island. Complete examples are often referred to as "Candy Canes”, because they are cane shaped.
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A beautiful Sphenoceramus elegans from the Late #Cretaceous of Vancouver Island. An unexpected find in a beach worn cobble at a spot with no nearby fossil bearing rocks. Perhaps dropped by a glacier during the last ice age.
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Examples of the ammonite Gaudryceras sp. collected from the Upper Cretaceous Nanaimo Group of Saanich Peninsula, Vancouver Island. Though not the best preserved specimens, they are the only ones I was able to collect back in 1990.
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A Pachydiscid ammonite collected from the Late Cretaceous Haslam Formation of Saanich Peninsula. This is the largest and most complete ammonite I’ve ever found on Saanich Peninsula. It measures 23cm at the widest point.
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Cf Thracia subtruncata
Cf Thracia subtruncata
cf Pholadomya subelongata
Indeterminate bivalve
A few more more for #MolluscMonday
These bivalves were collected from the Late Cretaceous rocks of the Nanaimo Group on Saanich Peninsula, Vancouver Island.
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Sphenoceramus cf sachalinensis
Sphenoceramus cf sachalinensis
Sphenoceramus cf naumanni
Sphenoceramus cf naumanni
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Examples of Sphenoceramus cf sachalinensis and S. cf naumanni from the Late Cretaceous Nanaimo Group of Saanich Peninsula, Vancouver Island.
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Late Cretaceous spatangoid sea urchin fossils from Saanich Peninsula, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. From the collection of Dan Bowden
More Late Cretaceous spatangoid sea urchin fossils from Saanich Peninsula, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. From the collection of Dan Bowden
An assortment of late Cretaceous spatangoid urchins collected from the Haslam Formation of Saanich Peninsula, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada.
Part of an ongoing project to organize and document fossils in my collection.
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