Why not come and pay me a visit at Unit 60 in The Indoor Market (bottom right hand corner) in the beautiful City of Durham? I have lots of mineral specimens, fossils, crystals and polished stone gift items on display. I look forward to seeing you there.

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Subfossils Collections". South Australian Museum. Archived from the original on 17 June 2011 . Retrieved 23 January 2014. In Norse mythology, echinoderm shells (the round five-part button left over from a sea urchin) were associated with the god Thor, not only being incorporated in thunderstones, representations of Thor's hammer and subsequent hammer-shaped crosses as Christianity was adopted, but also kept in houses to garner Thor's protection. [70] Over time, minerals in the sediment seep into the remains. The remains become fossilized. Fossilization usually occur in organisms with hard, bony body parts, such as skeletons, teeth, or shells. Soft-bodied organisms, such as worms, are rarely fossilized. The fossil record is life's evolutionary epic that unfolded over fourbillion years as environmental conditions and genetic potential interacted in accordance with natural selection. a b c "Prehistoric Fossil Collectors". Archived from the original on 17 February 2019 . Retrieved 16 February 2019.

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Löfgren, A. (2004). "The conodont fauna in the Middle Ordovician Eoplacognathus pseudoplanus Zone of Baltoscandia". Geological Magazine. 141 (4): 505–524. Bibcode: 2004GeoM..141..505L. doi: 10.1017/S0016756804009227. S2CID 129600604.Signore, P.W. III; Lipps, J.H. (1982). "Sampling bias, gradual extinction patterns and catastrophes in the fossil record". In Silver, L.T.; Schultz, P.H. (eds.). Geological Implications of Impacts of Large Asteroids and Comets on the Earth. Geological Society of America Special Papers. Vol.190. pp.291–296. doi: 10.1130/SPE190-p291. ISBN 0-8137-2190-3. Gathering fossils dates at least to the beginning of recorded history. The fossils themselves are referred to as the fossil record. The fossil record was one of the early sources of data underlying the study of evolution and continues to be relevant to the history of life on Earth. Paleontologists examine the fossil record to understand the process of evolution and the way particular species have evolved. Types of Imaginary Creatures "Discovered" In Fossils". 19 May 2015. Archived from the original on 16 February 2019 . Retrieved 16 February 2019. The ancient Egyptians gathered fossils of species that resembled the bones of modern species they worshipped. The god Set was associated with the hippopotamus, therefore fossilized bones of hippo-like species were kept in that deity's temples. [71] Five-rayed fossil sea urchin shells were associated with the deity Sopdu, the Morning Star, equivalent of Venus in Roman mythology. [70] Ceratopsian skulls are common in the Dzungarian Gate mountain pass in Asia, an area once famous for gold mines, as well as its endlessly cold winds. This has been attributed to legends of both gryphons and the land of Hyperborea.

If the Deluge had carried the shells for distances of three and four hundred miles from the sea it would have carried them mixed with various other natural objects all heaped up together; but even at such distances from the sea we see the oysters all together and also the shellfish and the cuttlefish and all the other shells which congregate together, found all together dead; and the solitary shells are found apart from one another as we see them every day on the sea-shores.Wilson Nichols Stewart; Gar W. Rothwell (1993). Paleobotany and the evolution of plants (2ed.). Cambridge University Press. p.31. ISBN 978-0-521-38294-6. Benton, M. (2009). "The completeness of the fossil record". Significance. 6 (3): 117–121. doi: 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2009.00374.x. S2CID 84441170. The knowledge organiser also contains key information about what soil is and explains how fossils are formed. The different types of fossils are listed in a useful table.