1. Fossil Types…44

2. Amber
Ice
Tar
Mold and Cast
Carbon
Trace Fossils

3. ICE Alaska/Siberia Mammoths and Rhinos Preserves muscle, skin and hair
Ice Man

6. AMBER Insects and Tiny organisms
Animals get trapped in tree sap that hardens

7. TAR Saber toothed cats and other large animals
Animals get trapped in the tar and sink
Wooly Mammoth

8. MOLD and CAST Organism dies and falls into the sediment.
Organisms decays leaving a MOLD
Sediment fills the mold, creating a CAST
Shells, bones and teeth

9. CARBON FILMS Carbon is an element found in every living thing
When something dies it leaves behind a carbon print.
Soft part of plants and animals

10. TRACE FOSSILS Preserved footprints, trails, animal holes and feces
Shows how animals lived, what they ate, how they behaved

11. Geologic time scale