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Description: | Various banded serpentine marbles, mostly collected during the 19th century, as examples of Eozoon, including material from:
a) Skye, Scotland (Durness limestone. Includes specimens from J.W. Gregory)
b) Ledbeg, Sutherlandshire, Scotland (collected by J.W. Gregory)
c) Canada
d) Various U.S. National Museums. (Precambrian and Lower Palaeozoic specimens, including from Walcott, Montana)
e) Crosskey Collection (from Canada and Connemara, Ireland)
'Eozoons' are pseudofossils - an inorganic trace of a metamorphic geological process - but were once hypothesised to be giant foraminifera.
Also includes some fossil material, including trace fossils (worm tracks and burrows), molluscs, and Burgess Shale material. Unknown | Subjects: | Geology; Palaeontology | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Address: | University of Glasgow,
University Avenue,
G12 8QQ | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Contributor: | Unknown | Identifier: | H-268 |
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