He called the organism Prototaxites, meaning “first conifer.” The name stuck, even though the fossil didn’t quite match any ...

A Silurian fossil from Shropshire, England, interpreted as a priapulid worm. The curved body is about 7cm long. Rare example of a fossil sipunculan worm. This 4cm-long specimen of Lecthaylus comes ...

QUITE recently a remarkable discovery of a fossil jelly-fish has been made in the fine-grained blue mud-stone of the lower part of the Silurian at Brunswick, Victoria. It was in the same locality ...