FOSSILS SPECIMEN: PLACODERMI

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).

Kingdom: Animalia – Phylum: Chordata – Class: Placodermi – Order Antiarchi

(placoderms)

Upper Silurian to Holocene

Placoderm Bothriolepis canadensis carapace

Middle to Late Devonian