Fossils (lat. fodere = to dig)

Fossils are remains or traces of living beings that became part of rocks due to certain processes. The science of palaeontology (greek = tenet of old being) bothers about fossils.

On this page you see a little private mingle-mangle of prevailing self-found fossils:

	coelacanth, jurassic, germany, ~ 25 cm
		Ceratit, Trias, Germany, ~ 8 cm
	silicic wood, Namibia, ~ 7 cm		Ammonit, Cretaceous, Germany, ~ 10 cm
		Inoceramus, Cretaceous, Germany, ~ 8 cm
	Echinodermata, Jurassic, Germany, ~ 5 cm		Ammonit, Jurassic, Germany, ~ 15 cm
		fern, Germany, ~ 5 cm		Ammonit, Jurassic, Germany, ~ 10 cm
	shell, ~ 5 cm		Ammonit, Jurassic, Germany, ~ 5 cm
		Ammonit, ~ 10 cm		Terebratel, Triassic, ~ 3 cm
	fish, ~ 20 cm		flying dinosaur, Germany, ~ 10 cm
		Rizocorallium, Triassic, Germany, ~ 12 cm		Ammonit, ~ 10 cm
	Ammonit, Jurassic, Germany, ~ 20 cm		sea urchin, ~ 4 cm
		geodes in an Ammoniten, ~ 4 cm