#cretaceous fossils

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Gastropods have a very large, muscular foot, a fairly developed head with eyes, mouth, and tentacles, and carry their house around on their back in the form of a shell. Sound familiar? Gastropods are snails!  Like today, some snails live on land, and some in the water. These are known as Turritella and they lived towards the end of the Cretaceous, which ended about sixty five million years ago.

[thechildrensmuseum]

Okay, so National Shrimp Day may be about enjoying and eating delicious shrimp, but we couldn’t help sharing one of our cool Cretaceous shrimp fossils!  This particular fossil is from Hjoula, Lebanon.

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Lance Creek Nodule Turtle: 66M-Year Extinction Secret

Lance Creek turtles lived exactly 66 million years ago during the Maastrichtian age, the final stage of the Cretaceous Period, just before the K-Pg asteroid impact. Ironstone nodules chemically sealed turtle remains from oxygen and bacteria, preserving three-dimensional skeletal detail and occasiona

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Lance Creek Nodule Turtle: 66M-Year Extinction Secret

Lance Creek turtles lived exactly 66 million years ago during the Maastrichtian age, the final stage of the Cretaceous Period, just before the K-Pg asteroid impact. Ironstone nodules chemically sealed turtle remains from oxygen and bacteria, preserving three-dimensional skeletal detail and occasiona

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Lance Creek Nodule Turtle: 66M-Year Extinction Secret

Lance Creek turtles lived exactly 66 million years ago during the Maastrichtian age, the final stage of the Cretaceous Period, just before the K-Pg asteroid impact. Ironstone nodules chemically sealed turtle remains from oxygen and bacteria, preserving three-dimensional skeletal detail and occasiona

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