FOSSILS SPECIMEN: SAUROPOD DINOSAURS
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).
Phylum: Chordata – Class: Reptilia – Clade: Archosaur – Clade: Dinosauria – Order: Saurischia – Suborder: Sauropodomorpha “lizard foot form”
(long neck dinosaurs)
Upper Triassic to Upper Cretaceous
Camarsaurus Skull
(Model)
Upper Jurassic
Morrison Formation, United States
Diplodocus Skull
(Model)
Upper Jurassic
Morison Formation, United States
Dinosaur Gastrolith
(Stomach Stones)
Late Jurassic Period
Colorado to Utah, United States