A few specimens acquired in the Amadeus Basin, near Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia, and range in age from ~380 Ma – 1 Ga.
Termites are incredible organisms. Many species are farmers: they gather plant material, bring it back to their fungi-colonized mound (usually Ascomycota), let the fungi digest the plant, then eat the fungi.
Nautiloids from the Ordovician Stairway Sandstone, Maloney Creek, Northern Territory
Uluru (Ayers Rock), a Precambrian (550 Ma) monolithUnknown fossilOrdovician (~460 Ma) clams, Mount Watt, Northern Territory. The furthest I have ever been from home. -25.33063687950072, 133.89224836154077
Trilobite trails (Cruziana), subsurface burrows of one of the earliest animals, Ordovician Mount Watt, Northern TerritoryAncient seafloor with CruzianaStromatolites (ID?) from the Johnny’s Creek Member of the ~770 Ma Bitter Springs Formation, Northern TerritoryNo idea, ID?“Dalmation” rock, a limestone, Johnny’s Creek Member of the Neoproterozoic Bitter Springs Formation: Interesting sedimentary texture, possibly altered by methanogens.
Glacier rock: Conglomerate, diamictite and sandstone of the 720 to 660 Ma “snowball earth” Areyonga Formation. It appears to be stromatolitic.ID?Early Cambrian (~520 Ma) Bunyerichnus sp. Ross River, Northern TerritoryNuclear control rod Inzeria intia stromatolite from the 1 Ga Bitter Springs Formation.
Planetary Soils 