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Other Uses for Fossils

Other Uses for Fossils - itc.gsw.eduitc.gsw.edu/faculty/bcarter/ISCI/Fossils.pdf · 15 Camb 600m y End Ordovician Devonian Late permian End Tnassic End Cretaceous O my BACKGROUND

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Page 1: Other Uses for Fossils - itc.gsw.eduitc.gsw.edu/faculty/bcarter/ISCI/Fossils.pdf · 15 Camb 600m y End Ordovician Devonian Late permian End Tnassic End Cretaceous O my BACKGROUND

Other Uses for Fossils

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Plate Tectonics

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Glossopteris (a seed fern or “tongue fern”) Lystrosaurus (a terrestrial reptile)

Mesosaurus (a freshwater lizard-like reptile) Cynognathus (a terrestrial reptile)

S. America

Africa

Antarctica

Australia

India

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Lots of Coral Species

Still a Lot of Them

Not So Many

Quite a Few

Hardly Any at All

Zip

30°N

Equator

30°S

Modified from an image at http://www.coralsoftheworld.org

Decreasing

Diversity

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DecreasingDiversity

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Decreasing

Diversity

?

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Dating Rocks/Evolution

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Paleoecology

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EOCENE AND OLIGOCENE (EARLY CENOZOIC) FOSSILS FROM NEAR AMERICUS

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PENNSYLVANIAN (LATE PALEOZOIC) FOSSILS FROM THE APPALACHIANS

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Extinctions

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