Today I want to show you a few of my fossils. They're all from Solnhofen, Germany! (The same place where they found Archaeopteryx, the first feathered dinosaur!) We found and collected them between 1990 and 1995.
An Ammonite with dendrites (the plant/flower looking things! A dendrite is a superficial deposit of manganese oxide that has crystallized in a multi-branching tree-like pattern. Dendrites form as water rich in manganese and iron flows along tiny cracks between layers of limestone and other rock types. I love them so much, they're beautiful)
The square little tile has the body of an insect on it (unfortunately the wings weren't preserved). The orange dendrite looks like one of van Gogh's sunflowers, doesn't it?
A badly preserved fish fossil, we unfortunately put a clear coat over it back in the days, because it used to hang on our kitchen wall. The head has little quartz crystals in it.
This is my favourite! It's a little fishy. Every bone is visible, even the rays in the tail. It's also a positive and negative impression, from prying the limestone slab apart. Small, but fascinating!