The Western Australian Museum Shop
Fossils and Gem Stones
The Western Australian Museum Shop has a large range of fossils, fossil jewellery and mineral specimens available in store. Shown below are a small selection of types we try to have in stock most times. Some items displayed may be sold, but similar ones should be available.
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Scutelles (an echinoderm) 5 - 20MYO $70.00 SAND DOLLAR A part of the echinoid family (related to the sea urchin), the Sand Dollar is made up of thin calcite plates. It lived buried in sand, taking in food from sediments through it’s ventral mouth. They first appeared in the Palaeocene Era (65-58 MYO) and can still be found today along the coastline of southern Australia. |
Polished Orthoceras teardrop $15.00 ORTHOCERAS The orthoceras was a type of cephalopod, which is a crerature that has tentacles attatched to it’s head. Modern cephalopods include the squid and the octopus. The orthoceras had a straight external shell, which became common fossils in rocks of the Paleozoic Era (545 – 251 MYO) |
Crinoid stems 400MYO $69.00 CRINOIDS Known as sea lilies or feather stars, Crinoids had a calcite skeleton attached to the sea floor by a flexible stem and were abundant in the Paleozoic seas (545-251 MYO), but still exist in our oceans. The arms filtered food from the water but soon after death the entire skeleton falls apart so well preserved fossils are very rare.
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Fossil Fish - Knightidae sp. From Wyoming, USA, Approx 43 MYO $75.00 10cm x 8cm x 1.5cm
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Fossil Fish - Dastilbe From Brazil' Approx 10 MYO $19.95 each 6cm x 4cm x .5cm |
Fossil Fish - Knightidae sp. From Wyoming, USA, Approx 43 MYO $75.00 10cm x 8cm x 1.5cm |
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Clockwise from left: Tribobite 400MYO in matrix (small) $29.00 Trilobite Proteus in matrix (large) $74.00 Trilobite SOLD (but similar available framed - see below) TRILOBITES Trilobites lived in the sea during the Paleozoic Era (545-251 MYO), but died out just before the first dinosaurs evolved They have a segmented body of three longitudinal lobes which are the head, mid-section and tail, hence their name. Their closest relatives today are insects, crabs and spiders.
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Sliced Tulear Ammonites Madagascar 135 MYO from $16.95/$19.95
AMMONITES Ammonites existed in the Mesozoic Era (248-65 MYO). They had hard shells of a chalky mineral named aragonite and are known for their complex suture lines (the stripes and patterns on their surface ). They had a squid-like head and a curved shell, and swam by jet propulsion.
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Ammonite Perisphinctes sp. 180MYO from Tulear Madagascar $120.00 |
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From left to right: Cave Bear Fossils 1.8MYO - 11,500yrs old Claw $170 Claw $100 Claw $70.00
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Copralite (Fossil Poo) Colorado USA 130 MYO Copralite (Fossil Poo) Malagasy 80 MYO Sold together$20.00 |
Goniatite Ammonite Atlas Mountzains 400 MYO $19.95 each
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Lamna Shark Tooth Marocco 60 MYO $15.00 |
Ammonite Clymenia sp. Unknown age from Marocco $19.95 |
Pecopteris Fern Fossil Pennsylvania USA 300 MYO $24.00 |
FURTHER INFORMATION:
Email: perth.shop@museum.wa.gov.au
OR Phone: (08) 94272776
Fax: (08) 94272864
We look forward to helping you.