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2. Trace fossil - Wikipedia

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   Trace fossils may consist of physical impressions made on or in the substrate by an organism. [3] For example, burrows , borings ( bioerosion ), urolites (erosion caused by evacuation of liquid wastes), footprints , feeding marks, and root cavities may all be trace fossils.

3. Raindrop impressions - Wikipedia

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   Many examples cited as modern or fossil raindrop impressions can be explained by air bubbles rising through the mud. The characteristics of any impression depend on so many variables they can not be used convincingly to demonstrate those impressions formed specifically by raindrops. [5]

4. List of dinosaur specimens with preserved soft tissue

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   There have been some discoveries of unusually well-preserved fossil dinosaur specimens which bear remnants of tissues and bodily structures.Organic tissue was previously thought to decay too quickly to enter the fossil record, unlike more mineralised bones and teeth, however, research now suggests the potential for the long-term preservation of original soft tissues over geological time, [1 ...

5. List of non-avian dinosaur species preserved with evidence of ...

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   Fossil of Sinornithosaurus millenii, the first evidence of feathers in dromaeosaurids Cast of a Caudipteryx fossil with feather impressions and stomach content Fossil cast of a Sinornithosaurus millenii Jinfengopteryx elegans fossil. Many non-avian dinosaurs were feathered. Direct evidence of feathers exists for the following species, listed in ...

6. List of index fossils - Wikipedia

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   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.

7. List of fossil sites - Wikipedia

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   This list of fossil sites is a worldwide list of localities known well for the presence of fossils. Some entries in this list are notable for a single, unique find ...

8. Fossil - Wikipedia

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   ' obtained by digging ') [1] is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age. Examples include bones, shells, exoskeletons, stone imprints of animals or microbes, objects preserved in amber, hair, petrified wood and DNA remnants. The totality of fossils is known as the fossil record. Though the ...

9. Specimens of Archaeopteryx - Wikipedia

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   The single feather. The initial discovery, a single feather, was unearthed in 1860 or 1861 and described in 1861 by Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer.The fossil consists of two counterslabs, designated BSP 1869 VIII 1 (main slab) and MB.Av.100 (counterslab), which are currently located at the Bavarian State Collection of Paleontology and Geology of Munich University and the Natural History ...