FOSSILS SPECIMEN: STROMATOLITES

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: Bacteria – Kingdom: Cyanobacteria “Blue-Green Algae”

(prokaryotes)

Ealiest Bacteria: Archean (Lower Precambrian) to Holocene

Cyanobacteria: Proterozoic (Middle Precambrian) to Holocene

Stromatolite

Paleozoic

Algal Mound

Paleozoic