Fossil ID

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• Metazoans

• Ctenophora

• Porifera

•  Cnidaria (coral, jellyfish, Hydra) - phylum

• Bilateria

• Protostomia

• Deuterostomia

• Lophotrochozoa

• Ecdysozoa

• Chordata

• Echinodermata

• Pterobranchia/Hemichordata

• Anthropoda

• Bryozoa (phylum)

• Brachiopoda (lamp shells)

• Mollusca

• Red Line1 (image/jpeg)

• Comb Jelliesuse cillia to move aroundnot in the Class Cnidaria because they don't have stinging cells

• Cjf401 C (image/jpeg)

• Spongesfilter-feeder; water is pumped through the body and out other larger openings

• Sponge (image/gif)

• Spicules

• Archaeocyatha

• Stromatoporoidea (class)

•  Anthozoa - class

• Hexacorallia

• Rugosids

• Scyphozoa

•  Cubozoa

• Hydroidea

• "Jellyfish" all Classes

• Tabulates

• Scleractinians

• These are all Orders

•  Inarticulate "Lingulata" (class)

• Articulata (class)

• Sub-class of Athozoa;6 fold symmetrystony corals and sea anemones;

•  Polyplacophorids (chitons)

• Monoplacophorids

• Scaphopods (tusk shells)

• Pelecypods (Bivalve)

• Gastropods

• Cephalopods

• Gryphaea

• Rudista

• Lopha

• Snails/typical gastropods

• Limpet

• Abalone

• Vermetids

• Nautiloidea

• Ammonoidea

• Fenestrate

• Branching

• Encrusting

• Trilobites

• Eurypterids

• Crustaceans

• Ostracodes

• Barnacles

• Decapoda: traces

• Blastoids

• Cystoids

• Crinoids

• Echinoids

• Graptolites

• StipeDissempiment - connecting bars between stipe and colonyThecaDendroid - branching

• Craniata

• Conodonts

• Receptaculties

• Stromatolites, oncolites (oncoids), oolites (ooids)

• Rhodophyta

• PROTISTS

• Foraminifera

• Radiolaria

• Diatoms

• Coccolithophores

• found in clumpstongue-shaped shellno hingeless common than ArticulatesApatite and Calcite Shells

• single uniteverything besides lingulatahinged shells, tightly welded

• Univalve - no symmetryscavengersARAGONITE

• Univalve - bilateral symmetry

• Cambrian to PresentBivalve - symmetry 90 degree to hinge lineLophophore - suspension feeder

• Early to late Cambrian1st reef builderskinda looks like a horn coralcarbonate structures in limestoneoriginally had a calcite skeletonfilter-feeder

• Ordoviacian - Devoniancalcareous skeleton;reef-builder (not coral though);try not to confuse them with stromatolites (stromatoporoids are kinda silky looking; have columns and phalanges); are sometimes lighter?

• basically the way to identify porifera;pointy structures; can develop multiple "rays"

• Microscopic Spiculesfrom Pachastrellid Sponge (image/jpeg)

• Westgard5 (image/jpeg)

• Archaeocrack (image/jpeg)

• Stromatolites: cyanobacteria

• 3f E Stromatolites Stromatoporoids Fig05 (image/jpeg)

• Strom (image/gif)

• Tissues but no organs;

• Box Jellies;they look like boxes

• True Jellies

• Corals

• Horn Corals;Ordovician to Permian;calcite skeletonal,almost always found as castssolitary or colonies

• Rugosa1 (image/gif)

• symmetry between valves;calcium carbonate shells;

• Cambrian to Presentthey literally look like tusks;shells rather than the organism itself

• Scaphopods (image/jpeg)

• "flowing mat"

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• Fenestratebryozoaninlimestone (image/jpeg)

• Moss Animalsinvertebrates;lophophore (flailing thingies) - suspension feederZooids - indiv. in colony, not full animalshermaphodites

• Argagonitelook for stars

• Freshwater Bryozoan234 (image/jpeg)

• Cambrian to Carboniferouspreserved as a black carbon tracefilter-feeders

• PLANT!Red Algaeabsorbs blue light = lives deeper than the other algaescarbonate shell, reef builderslook like graptolite except pink

• note teeth!

• Conodont Teeth Udo Savalli (image/jpeg)

• 021 R1 2 (image/jpeg)

• identify by hole (but not every limpet has a hole),unevenlooks like a volcano

• Limpet Top102411 (image/jpeg)

• Ordovician to presentlooks like a sea lilystem,we went on a field trip;filter feeders

• looks like a sperm;oval body compared to the round crinoid;

• Crinoide Vraie (image/jpeg)

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• Composite011111 (image/jpeg)

• Calcite

• to presentsand dollars and sea urchins

• 226 5 (image/jpeg)

• Sand Dollar2 (image/jpeg)

• (sea scorpians) Horseshoe crabs

• Sea Scorpion Fossils (image/jpeg)

• Wanneria11024x768x72 (image/jpeg)

• Ordovician to presentmost common arthropodshelled shrimpcalcareous shellwide range of diet

• Cambrian to Permianrange feeder3 sections - cephalon, thorax, pygidium

• Devonian to Present10 footed -  crayfish, crabs, lobsters, prawns, and shrimp.

• Post 2301 0 03686900 1380105507 (image/jpeg)

• Inarticulata1 (image/jpeg)

• Articulata Brachiopod (image/jpeg)

• Mid-Cambrian to PresentSuspension feeders

• Dsc 0625 Edit (image/jpeg)

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• Ordovician to Permianfossils look like nuts

• Hydrozoa;freshwater jelly, Portugese Man O' WarPolyp and Medusa form

• Ordovician to Permian

• Cambrian to Presentunivalve, single shelledlooks like a Limpet, but more curved

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• Monopic (image/jpeg)

• Tmp343 Thumb Thumb (image/jpeg)

• Mother of Pearl - Aragonite

• 661 Fossilized Abalone Shell 011 (image/jpeg)

• 2812 Fossil Abalone Shell 002 (image/jpeg)

• Cystoids (image/png)

• Crinoidea (image/png)

• Barnacles On Coral 01 (image/jpeg)

• Pfo187b (image/jpeg)

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• Vermetus Pliocene Cyprus Aperture View (image/jpeg)

• worm-like

• Pfo408a (image/jpeg)

• 982625 Orig (image/jpeg)

• Bcded874a246ac69ace80dc369bb837c (image/jpeg)

• Halysites Silurian (image/jpeg)

• Calapoecia Huronensis Billings, 1865 Top (image/jpeg)

• Rafinesquina Ponderosa (Hall) Ventral (image/jpeg)

• "Devil's Toenail"

• Basicplan (image/jpeg)