1. Title: Prehistoric Predation Category: Geology Subcategory: Difficulty: Unknown Year 2004 Bowl: Shore Bowl Author: C. Grant Law Contact info: 732-932-6555 ext 310 Email law@marine.rutgers.edulaw@marine.rutgers.edu IMCS, Rutgers University 71 Dudley Rd. New Brunswick, NJ 08901

2. QUESTION Round:Time: 2 minutesStandard/Category: Geology QUESTION: Predators have been roaming the oceans for a long time... 1)Draw lines between the best predator/prey pairs, making sure they pass through the geological period in which the predation would have occurred. (3 points for each correct pair and period, 2 points for a correct pair with an incorrect period) 2) Give a taxonomic identification more specific than phylum for each organism. Common names are acceptable. (I point for each identification) Silurian Devonian Cambrian Cretaceous

3. PREDATORS

4. PREY

5. ANSWER Round:Time: 2 minutesStandard/Category: Category QUESTION/ANSWERS: Silurian Devonian Cambrian Cretaceous Ammonoid, or ammonite Arthrodire Eurypterid, or water-scorpion Anomalocaris Actinopterygian, or teleost Marrella Trilobite Elasmobranch, or shark 1)3 points for each correct predator/prey pair connected through the appropriate period. 2 points for each correct predator/prey pair passing through an incorrect period. 2)1 point for each correctly identified animal. Stokes, WL, 1973, Essentials of Earth History. Prentice-Hall Inc. (Figs. 11.3, 11.24, 20.9) Lane, NG, 1992, Life of the Past. MacMillan Publishing Co. (Fig. 12.14) Romer, AS, 1941, Man and the Vertebrates, The University of Chicago Press (p.21) Briggs, DEG et al. 1994, The Fossils of the Burgess Shale, Smithsonian Institution Press (pp. 201, 143)