Jurassic

Restoration of Pradhania gracilis from the Early Jurassic of India

Ichthyosaurus communis, Early Jurassic of England. Digital.

Permineralized Jurassic fern rhizome from Korsaröd (Sweden) of Osmundastrum pulchellum. It has preserved Nuclei and Chromosomes, a fine subcellular detail has rarely been documented in fossils. It´s Rooted in DNA content was used to extrapolate relative genome, finding relationships with extant Osmundastrum cinnamomeum, and confirmed a monophyletic Osmunda. Osmundastrum pulchellum is one of the earliest fossil Osmundastrum rhizomes known so far, and the first of its kind from the Mesozoic of Europe. Its impressive preservation has lead to know even the biotic interactions with the Plant. It also has recovered the only know case know to preserve the ongoing mitosis processes in plant cells via calcification from volcanic hydrothermal brine.

Early Jurassic (Lias γ, Pliensbachian) ferruginous limestone (the bed below the hammer) and marl (the bed ‘behind’ the hammer) in the cap rocks of the oolithic iron ore deposit at the village of Rottorf am Klei, Lower Saxony, Germany, largely obscured by weathered material of the same rocks.

Upper Jurassic (Oxfordian) sedimentary rock layers at the base of a cliff at low tide at Filey Brigg in North Yorkshire, England.

Passage Beds (Jurassic) at Filey Brigg, North Yorkshire.

Cliff at Filey Brigg in North Yorkshire, England (at low tide). Soft Quaternary deposits lie on top of horizontal layers of Upper Jurassic (Oxfordian) sedimentary rocks.

Jurassic Forest, Cathedral of Ferns - Blue Mountains, New South Wales.

A life reconstruction of the middle Jurassic sauropod, Spinophorosaurus nigerensis, from the nigerian Irhazer Shale.

Osgodby Formation (Middle Jurassic) exposed on the shore of Cayton Bay, North Yorkshire.

Matmor Formation (Jurassic, Callovian) exposed in Makhtesh Gadol, Israel. (Electricity pylon for scale).

A lampshell of the genus Acanthothiris, Class Rhynchonellata, Order Rhynchonellida, Family Acanthothirididae, 20mm along the axis, view of the pedunculate valve, from Woodeaton, Oxfordshire, UK, middle Middle Jurassic (Bathonian)

A lampshell of the genus Acanthothiris, Class Rhynchonellata, Order Rhynchonellida, Family Acanthothirididae, 20mm along the axis, view of the opening, from Woodeaton, Oxfordshire, UK, middle Middle Jurassic (Bathonian)

A lampshell of the genus Acanthothiris, Class Rhynchonellata, Order Rhynchonellida, Family Acanthothirididae, 20mm along the axis, lateral view, from Woodeaton, Oxfordshire, UK, middle Middle Jurassic (Bathonian)

A lampshell of the genus Acanthothiris, Class Rhynchonellata, Order Rhynchonellida, Family Acanthothirididae, 20mm along the axis, view of the hinge, from Woodeaton, Oxfordshire, UK, middle Middle Jurassic (Bathonian)

A lampshell of the genus Acanthothiris, Class Rhynchonellata, Order Rhynchonellida, Family Acanthothirididae, 20mm along the axis, view of the brachial valve, from Woodeaton, Oxfordshire, UK, middle Middle Jurassic (Bathonian)