FOSSILS The Most Important Story. TRILOBITES (CAMBRIAN – PERMIAN 541 – 252 MILLION YEARS AGO)

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FOSSILS The Most Important Story

TRILOBITES (CAMBRIAN – PERMIAN 541 – 252 MILLION YEARS AGO)

TRILOBITES (CAMBRIAN – PERMIAN)

BRACHIOPODS (CAMBRIAN – PRESENT)

STRAIGHT & COILED SHELLED CEPHALOPODS (ORDOVICIAN 485 MYA – PRESENT)

CORAL (CAMBRIAN – PRESENT)

MYSTERY SAMPLE #1

LEPIDODENDRON – CARBONIFEROUS (359 – 299 MILLION YEARS AGO)

FERNS PERMIAN (?) - PRESENT(299 - NOW)

MYSTERY SAMPLE #2 – JURASSIC (?) ( MILLION YEARS AGO)

MYSTERY SAMPLE #3 - JURASSIC

FISH – GREEN RIVER SHALE (EOCENE 56.0 – 33.9 MILLION YEARS AGO)

PALM FROND – GREEN RIVER SHALE (EOCENE 56.0 – 33.9 MYA)

CALVERT CLIFF SHELLS – MIOCENE (23.0 – 5.3 MILLION YEARS AGO)

MYSTERY SAMPLE #4

ACTUAL PRESERVATION (AMBER – MIOCENE MYA) MUSHED ICKY IN PLASTIC - RECENT