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Geol G308
Paleontology and Geology of Indiana
Department of Geological Sciences | P. David Polly 1
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Lab Plants and Vertebrates
Assignment: Work with your fossil sites to produce classification of the taxa at the level covered in our labs. This classification will be due by Friday next week.
Plants Algae
Cycloscrinites dactyloides, Silurian, Hopkingon Fm., Jones Co. Iowa
Tracheophyta (vascular plants)
Spores, New Albany Shale Sporing bodies, Dugger Fm.
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Lycophyta (club mosses)
Lepidodendron (trunks), Stigmaria (roots) Sigillaria
Sphenophyta (horsetails)
Calamites, Mansfield SS (stems) Annularia, Dugger Fm. (leaves) Calamostachys, Lower Black Coal (cones)
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Pteridophyta (ferns)
Pecopteris, Indiana Pecopteris (fertile), Indiana Neuropteris, Indiana
Pteridospermophyta (seed ferns)
Alethopteris serlii, Posttsville Series (Pennsylvanian) St. Clair Pennsylvania Alethopteris ambigua, Pennsylvanian of Indiana University Sphenopteris fern foliage, Lower Black Coal
Progymnosperms
Archaeopteris, Devonian, Hancock, NY
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Pinopsida (conifers)
Walchia, Abo Fm. New Mexico (Permian)
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Plant Phylogeny
(from Doyle, JA. 1998. Phylogeny of vascular plants. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 29: 567-599).
Department of Geological Sciences | P. David Polly 6
Vertebrates
Conodonta
Jaw elements of lamprey-like early vertebrates
Astrapsids, Heterostraci
Vert fragments in sandstone, mid Ordovician, Harding Sandstone
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Chondricthyes (Sharks, rays, and chimaeras)
Misc shark teeth (x4) Valmeyeran
Elasmobranchii (sharks), Xenacanthida
Xenacanth shark, Cannel Coal, Knox County, IL
Holocephali , Cochl iodontidae (chimaeras)
Deltodus Pavement shark, Salem Ls. Deltodus Pavement shark, Harrodsburg Ls. Cascades Park. Deltodus Pavement shark, Gosport, IN.
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Osteichthyes (Bony Fish)
Actinopterygia (Ray-f inned f ish), Palaeonisciformes
Palaeoniscoid fish, Devonian, Old Red SS. Palaeoniscum friesenlebeni, Kupferschiefer
Tetrapoda (l imbed vertebrates)
Paleosauropus, Late Mississippian ichnogenus (trackway) (from Colbert and Schaeffer) See also trackway from Crane Naval Base on 2nd Floor
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Early Vertebrate phylogeny: Cambrian through Devonian
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Jawed f ishes (Gnathostomata), Si lur ian to Present
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