1. PRESERVED REMAINS OR TRACES OF AN ORGANISM THAT LIVED IN THE PAST.
FOSSILS
PRESERVED REMAINS OR TRACES OF AN ORGANISM THAT LIVED IN THE PAST.

2. Fossils are usually from more than 10,000 years ago…
Fossils give clues to:
1.)The diversity of living things over Earth’s history.
2.) The past climate and surface changes.
3.) The changes with organisms over time (adaptations).

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4. Fossils are categorized by…
HOW THEY FORM!
1.) Mold Fossil:
The cavity left behind after an organism decays. (Sediments bury an organism & sediments change into rock.)

5. 2. Cast Fossil:
A copy of the shape of an organism after the mold is filled in with sediment or mud that hardens.

6. 3. Permineralized / Petrified Fossil:
Water, containing minerals, soaks into the buried fossil, and replaces parts of the remains.
Quartz
How do fossils form?

7. 4. Preserved /Original Remains Fossil:
Decaying of organism is prevented by being trapped in rock, ice, tar or amber.
Mammoth Discovery in Michigan in 2015

8. 5. Carbonized Fossil:
Organisms are pressed between layers of soft mud or clay that hardens squeezing the decaying organism away leaving the carbon “stamp” on the rock.

9. 6. Trace Fossil:
Forms when mud or sediment hardens to rock where a footprint, trail, or burrow of an organism was left behind.

10. Can you name the TYPE?
On p. 3, try to identify the fossil type in the “fossil type” column.
Use your notes.  1 4 3 2

11. More commonly known as the trilobite
What is it?
Elrathi
More commonly known as the trilobite
Most popular Index Fossil
Oldest fossil out of the 8.
Some swam and some remained on land.
Cast/ OR

12. What is it? Mucrospirifer Thedfordensis
Shelled marine organism; filter feeder.
Cast/ OR

13. What is it?
Tabulophyllum….
CORAL!
Cast

14. What is it? Alethopteris
Fern Family
Carbon

15. What is it? Ammonite Closely related to the octopus and squid.
Cast/ OR

16. What is it? Admetopsis
SNAIL Family
Cast/OR

17. What is it? Knightia Freshwater bony fish; lived in North America
Carbon

18. What is it? Goniobasis Freshwater snails.
Youngest fossil out of the 8.
Permineralized