Wikipedia:GLAM/NHMandSM/NHM Galleries/Fossils from Britain

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In Land Deposits

Fossils which were originally preserved on land

Bones and teeth of an antelope preserve in rock, from a cave floor in the Balearic Islands, Spain.

Bones of a pig from a cave in Israel. The minute cavities in the bones have been filled by Calcium phosphate.

Recent leaf preserved in volcanic ash from the Azores.

Stems of freshwater plant (Chara, stonewart) encrusted with calcium carbonate. From the Pleistocene of Wemar, Germany.

a, b. Moths and flies preserved in gum copal from a recent East African tree.

c. Spider preserved in amber from an Oligocene coniferous tree, Germany.