Sponges

Images of living sponges.

• Glass sponge
• Glass sponges
• Large hexactinellid
• Venus flower basket
• Deep water fan sponge

Images of fossil sponges

• Brachiospongia, Ordovician
• Brachiospongia, Ordovician
• Dictyophon, Devonian glass sponge
• Dictyophon, Devonian glass sponge

Cnidarians (Corals, jellyfish, anemones, etc.)

Images of living cnidarians

• Iridogorgia
• Iridogorgia closeup
• Deep water octocorals
• Deepwater anemone
• Another deepwater anemone
• Flytrap anemone
• Porpida
• Scyphomedusan
• Chrysaora, a jellyfish
• MIDWATER MEDUSAE
  • Calycopsis
  • Mitrocoma
  • Foersteria
  • Leukhartiara
  • Arctapodema
  • Aequoria
  • Colobonema
  IMAGES OF FOSSIL CNIDARIANS: TABULATA
  • Syringopora
  • Halysites catenularia
  • Favosites colony.
  • Favosites
  • Heliolites
  • Michelinia
  • Pleurodictyum

  IMAGES OF FOSSIL CNIDARIANS: RUGOSA

  • Enallophrentis
  • Siphonophrentis
  • Favistella
  • Lithostrotion
  • Pachyphyllum
  • Palaeocyclus
  • Goniophyllum
  • Calceola sandalina

  IMAGES OF FOSSIL CNIDARIANS: SCLERACTINIA

  • Montlivaltia
  • Thecosmilia
  • Stylina
  • Astrhelia
  • Coelosmilia
  • Endopachys
  • Stephanophyllia

  Ctenophore: A comb jelly or ctenophore

  Worms

  Bryozoans

  Living bryozoans

  • Retepora
  • Adeona

  Fossil bryozoans

  • Prasopora
  • Fenestella
  • Archimedes

  Brachiopods

  LIVING BRACHIOPODS

  • Laqueus

  FOSSIL BRACHIOPODS

  • Pentamerus
  • Conchidium
  • Strophonella
  • Leptaena
  • Derbyia.
  • Leptodus

  • Kallirhynchia
  • Cyclothyris

  • Cyrtospirifer

  Molluscs

  Cephalopods

  IMAGES OF LIVING CEPHALOPODS
  • Deepsea octopus
  • Octopus
  • Squid
  • Two-foot long squid

  IMAGES OF FOSSIL CEPHALOPODS: AMMONOIDS

  • Muensteroceras. Goniatite.
  • Placenticeras
  • Monophyllites Triassic ?ceratite
  • Jeletzkytes
  • Scaphites
  • Didymoceras
  • Taramelliceras opercula
  • Hibolites with guard, Solnhofen.

    Gastropods (snails)

    IMAGES OF LIVING GASTROPODS
    • Beautiful nudibranch

    IMAGES OF FOSSIL GASTROPODS

    • Maclurea, Ordovician
    • Cyclonema, Silurian
    • Euomphalus, Silurian
    • Murchisonia, Silurian.
    • Omphalotrochus, Silurian
    • Platyceras, Devonian
    • Pleurotomaria, Jurassic

    • Anchura, Coon Creek, Cretaceous
    • Cancellaria, Pliocene
    • Cypraea, Pliocene

  • Bivalves

    IMAGES OF LIVING BIVALVES
    • Spondylus?
    • Giant clam from seamount
    • Clams on hydrothermal site
    • Worms inside clam mantle

    IMAGES OF FOSSIL BIVALVES

    • Ostrea titan from Miocene of California

    Trilobites

    • Peronopsis, an agnostid
    • Ptychagnostus from the Burgess Shale.
    • Olenellus
    • Paradoxides from Bohemia.
    • Dicranurus, an odontopleurid from Morocco, with awesome spines.
    • Calymene
    • Ceraurus
    • Dipleura
    • Homotelus
    • Bumastus
    • Bumastoides
    • Illaenus
    • Isotelus gigas
    • Trinucleus
    • Proetus
    • Griffithides
    • Phacops rana
    • Phacops rana enrolled

    Living Marine Arthropods

    Limulus

    • Limulus and trail
    • A mass of Limulus individuals
    • Another mass of Limulus individuals
    • Baby Limulus
    • Molting Limulus

    FOSSIL CHELICERATES

    • Eurypterus
    • Eurypterus
    • Eurypterus
    • Eurypterid claw
    • Euproops

      Mesolimulus, Solnhofen.

    Other marine arthropods

    • Amphipod
    • Copepod with eggs
    • Crab
    • Portunid crab (a swimmer, I think)
    • Molting sea spider

    FOSSIL CRUSTACEA

    • Ostracod Eoleperditia, Ordovician.
    • Ostracod Leperditia, Silurian.
    • Echinocaris, Devonian.
    • Eryma, Solnhofen.
    • Aeger, Solnhofen

    Terrestrial Arthropods

    IMAGES OF FOSSIL INSECTS

    • Dragonfly wing, Pennsylvanian.

    Echinoderms

    Images of living echinoderms

    • Living crinoid
    • Sea star
    • Brisingid sea star
    • Brittlestar
    • Urchin with commensal tube worms
    • Urchin
    • Urchin, Astropyga
    • Pencil urchin
    • Aristotle's lantern

    Images of fossil crinoids

    • Cyathocrinites
    • Pachylocrinus
    • Scytalocrinus
    • Platycrinites with gastropod
    • Saccocoma, Solnhofen

    Images of fossil echonoids

    • Cidaroid, Cretaceous
    • Galeropygus, Jurassic
    • Clypeaster
    • Clypeaster
    • Dendraster, Pleistocene of California

      Small groups of fossil echinoderms

      • Lepidasterella, a seastar, Devonian
      • Jurassic brittlestar Ophioderma
      • Looks like a Jurassic brittlestar from Solnhofen
      • Deltoblastus, a blastoid
      • A collection of Pentremites
      • Caryocrinites, a cystoid
      • Edrioasteroid
      • Trochocystites, Cambrian of Bohemia.
      • Anomalocystis
      • Helicoplacus

      Page last updated November 22, 2004.

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