FOSSILS SPECIMEN MENU:
Fossils are defined as any evidence of prehistoric life. There are two types of fossils: Body Fossils include remains of skeletal bones, shell, carapace, test and teeth. Trace Fossils are clues the organism existed such as foot prints, tracks, burrows and coprolites (fossil dung).
For those of you that have been in the field with me, click here for my “fossils by dig site” page.
Click here to see my “How fossils form” page, with examples from the specimen below.
Click the images below to access each fossil specimen page:
STROMATOLITES
Bacteria are microscopic organisms which are prokaryotes.
PROTIST
Protist are microscopic organisms which are eukaryotes.
PLANTS
Plants are multicellular organisms, predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae
SPONGES
Simplest Animals
CORAL
Solitary and Colonial Cnidarians
BRYOZOA
“Tiny Animals”
BRACHIOPODA
Bivalved relatives of Bryozoans
ANNELIDS
Worm Imprints and Tubes
BIVALVIA
Clams, Pectin and Oysters
GASTROPODA
Snails, Slugs, Abalones and Limpets
CEPHALOPODA
Squid, Octopus, Nautiloids, Belemnites and Ammonites
SCAPHOPODA
Tusk Shell Mollusk
TRILOBITES
Early Marine Arthropods
EURYPTERIDS
Commonly called “Sea Scorpions”
CRUSTACEANS
Crabs, Shrimp, and Barnacles
INSECTS
Ants, Bees, Beetles, and Butterflies
ECHINOZOA
Sea Urchins, Sand Dollars, and Sea Cucumber
CRINOZOA and BLASTOZOA
Crinoids, Blastoids, and Cystoids
ASTEROZOA
Brittle Stars and Sea Stars formerly “Starfish”
HEMICHORDATA
Graptolites and Acorn Worms
CONODONTS
Early Chordates
PLACODERMI
Armoured Fish
Chondrichthyes
Sharks, Skates, Rays, and Ratfish
ACTINOPTERYGII
Bony Ray-Finned Fish
AMPHIBIANS
Frogs and Salamanders
REPTILES
Turtles, Snakes, Lizards, Mosasaurs, and Dinosaurs
EARLY SYNAPSIDS
Early Mammal Ancestory of the Early Permian Period
