FOSSILS SPECIMEN: PROTIST
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).
Domain: Eukaryote – Kingdom: Protista
Eukaryotic Organism (with cells contining a nucleus)
Lower Proterozoic (Middle Precambrian) to Holocene
Forams in Matrix
Cretaceous
Forams
Cretaceous
Forams
Cretaceous
Forams
Triticites beedei
Pennsylvanian (Late Carboniferous)
Magdalena Limestone
El Paso County, Texas
Porocystis globularis
(Reproductive body of seaweed)
Lower Cretaceous
Glen Rose Fromation, Texas
Forams
Lithothamnion sp.
Pleistocene
Sicilian st. Mazzara Del Vallo, Sicily, Italy
Forams Numulites
Eocene
Egypt
Forams Numulites
Eocene
Egypt