Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Fossils
Remains of Ancient Plants And Animals,
Evidence of Life
Marine Energy M.Sc. Course
Prof. Dr. M.M. El-Gammal
Mass Extinctions
Dinosaurs = 4th worst
Permian extinction (220 m.y. ago) took out
90% of all species
Mass Extinctions
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Mammalia
Order Carnivora (Dogs) Primates (Humans)
Family Canidae
Hominidae
Genus Canis
Homo
Species familiaris
sapiens
Actually, I considered
this an extreme honor.
Besides, I knew no one
was going to write and
ask to name a new
species of swan after
me. You have to grab
these opportunities
when they come along.
Strigiphilus
garylarsoni
Animals
Plants
Protista (one-celled organisms)
Fungi
Bacteria*
Ediacaran Fossils? (ca. 700 m.y. ago)
Rarely Preserved
Soft or Easily Decayed Parts of Organisms:
Internal Organs
Skin
Hair
Feathers
Types of Fossils
Original Material
Casts & Molds
Replacement (Petrified Wood)
Carbonized Films (Leaves)
Footprints, Tracks, Etc.
Trace Fossils Our only preserved record of
behavior of fossil organisms
Pseudofossils
Look Like Fossils But Aren't
Dendrites
Concretions
Pseudofossils
A Pseudofossil
Natural or Sculpture?
Beringers
Book
Correlation
Latin, fourth
1822
Tertiary
Latin, third
1760
Cretaceous
1822
Jurassic
1795
Triassic
Latin, three-fold
1834
Permian
Perm, Russia
1841
Carboniferous
Carbon-bearing
1822
Devonian
Devonshire, England
1840
Silurian
1835
Ordovician
1879
Cambrian
1835