Creation Displays at BJU

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Fossil Collection

The BJU science faculty use an extensive fossil and mineral collection in their teaching, and selected fossils are on public display. Click on the photos below for larger images of the samples shown.

Fossil wasp nest with pupae illustrates fossilization of soft and fragile structures.

This Spirifer sp. is a pyritized brachiopod from New York.

This Ecphora is a Pliocene fossil collected by the faculty from a quarry in Cross, SC.

This marcasite "sunburst" or "dollar" looks superficially like a fossil but is actually a natural crystal of Iron Sulfide.