Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Fossil collecting (sometimes, in a non-scientific sense, fossil hunting) is the collection of the fossils for scientific study, hobby, or profit. Fossil collecting, as practiced by amateurs, is the predecessor of modern paleontology and many still collect fossils and study fossils as amateurs.
Many fossils are buried in large slabs of fossiliferous limestone and shale. Fossilized trilobites found in the Kope Formation. A fragment of a prone Isotelus trilobite is pictured (left). Multiple fragments of possibly different trilobites are also pictured (right). Fragment of a fossilized cephalopod collected near the bottom of the Kope ...
Fossil Legends of the First Americans. Princeton University Press. 2005. ISBN 0-691-11345-9. Murray, Marian (1974). Hunting for Fossils: A Guide to Finding and Collecting Fossils in All 50 States. Collier Books. p. 348. ISBN 978-0-02-093550-6. Orr, Elizabeth L. and Orr, William N. 2009. Oregon Fossils (Second Edition).
A fossil hunter was scouring a Mississippi creek for remnants of the past when he came across the discovery of a lifetime — a tusk from an ice age Columbian mammoth. He stumbled onto a large ...
Index fossils must have a short vertical range, wide geographic distribution and rapid evolutionary trends. Another term, "zone fossil", is used when the fossil has all the characters stated above except wide geographical distribution; thus, they correlate the surrounding rock to a biozone rather than a specific time period.
At first, fossil-hunting diver Alex Lundberg thought the lengthy object on the sea floor off Florida's Gulf Coast was a piece of wood. It turned out to be something far rarer, Lundberg said: a ...
Fossil Legends of the First Americans. Princeton University Press. 2005. ISBN 0-691-11345-9. Murray, Marian (1974). Hunting for Fossils: A Guide to Finding and Collecting Fossils in All 50 States. Collier Books. p. 348. ISBN 9780020935506. Springer, Dale, and Judy Scotchmoor. August 14, 2008. "Pennsylvania, US." The Paleontology Portal ...
The vertebrate fossils in the Florissant are predominantly small fragments of incomplete bones. There have been a few described species of vertebrates, mostly fish, but also birds and mammals. The fish discovered at the site include bowfins, suckers, catfishes, and pirate perches. Most of these were bottom dwellers, except the perches, and many ...