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Acotherulum saturninum, jaw, Isle of Wight, England
Rabbit skull, Palaeolagus sp. White River formation, Dakota, USA.
Crocodile scutes, Eocene London Clay strata of Kent, England.
Plesiosaur vertebrae
Ichthyosaurus bones, Lower Jurassic, Somerset, England.
Complete skull of fish, Rhinocephalus planiceps, Sheppey, Kent.
Ray's palate, Myliobatis sp., Sheppey, Kent.
Coelacanth, Osteolepis macrolepidotus, Orkney Islands, Scotland.
Shark's tooth, Otodus obliquus, Sheppey, Kent.
Shrimp, Ager libanensis, Mount Haekel, Lebanon.
Lobster, Mechochirus magnus, Isle of Wight, England.
Ostracod (unspecified), Maidstone, Kent.
Trilobite, Anebolithus simplicior, from Wales.
Trilobite, Elrathia kingii, Cambrian, Utah, USA.
Trilobite, Dalmanites myops, Silurian, Ludlow, England.
Midge in amber, Eocene / Oligocene, Baltic.
Larval stage of Dipteran Hypoderma species, Eocene, Green River area, USA.
Adult dipteran insect , Plecia sp., Oligocene lake deposits, near Le Puy-en-Valay, France.
Leaf, Aletheropteris serlii, Carboniferous period, Writhlington, Somerset, England.
Auraucorites shoot, Eocene age, Sheppey, Kent,
Ammonite, Amaltheus margaritatus, Jurassic, South Dorset coast, England.
Nautilus, Cymatoceras deslongchampsionensis, Cretaceous, Isle of Wight, England.
Gastropod, Athleta luctator, Eocene, Barton Clay, Hampshire, England.
Bivalve, Nucula ovata, Cretaceous, Gault Clay, Kent, England.
Un-named Belemnite species, Jurassic, southern England.
Echinoid, Micraster cortestudinarium, Cretaceous Chalk, Kent, England.
Asteroid, Starfish, Upper Triassic, Somerset, England.
Bryozoan, Adenelopsis wetherelli, Eocene, Sheppey, Kent, England.
Brachiopod, Terebratula ampulla, Pleistocene, Island of Milos, Greece.
Coral, Dibunophylum bipartitum, Carboniferous, North of England.

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