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The history of paleontology traces the history of the effort to understand the history of life on Earth by studying the fossil record left behind by living organisms. Since it is concerned with understanding living organisms of the past, paleontology can be considered to be a field of biology, but its historical development has been closely tied to geology and the effort to understand the ...
e. Paleontology (/ ˌpeɪliɒnˈtɒlədʒi, ˌpæli -, - ən -/ PAY-lee-on-TOL-ə-jee, PAL-ee-, -ən-), also spelled palaeontology[ a ] or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). [citation needed] It includes the study of fossils to classify ...
Palaeozoology, also spelled as Paleozoology (Greek: παλαιόν, palaeon "old" and ζῷον, zoon "animal"), is the branch of paleontology, paleobiology, or zoology dealing with the recovery and identification of multicellular animal remains from geological (or even archeological) contexts, and the use of these fossils in the reconstruction of prehistoric environments and ancient ecosystems.
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1924 — Raymond Dart examines fossils of " Taung Child," found by quarrymen in South Africa, and names Australopithecus africanus. 1944 — The publication of Tempo and Mode in Evolution by George Gaylord Simpson integrates paleontology into the modern evolutionary synthesis. 1946 — Reginald Sprigg discovers fossils of the Ediacaran biota in ...
A noteworthy feature of Paleozoic life is the sudden appearance of nearly all of the invertebrate animal phyla in great abundance at the beginning of the Cambrian. The first vertebrates appeared in the form of primitive fish, which greatly diversified in the Silurian and Devonian Periods. The first animals to venture onto dry land were the ...
Leaping Laelaps by Charles R. Knight, 1897. Paleoart (also spelled palaeoart, paleo-art, or paleo art) is any original artistic work that attempts to depict prehistoric life according to scientific evidence. [ 1 ] Works of paleoart may be representations of fossil remains or imagined depictions of the living creatures and their ecosystems.
Evolution of cephalopods. Appearance. The cephalopods have a long geological history, with the first nautiloids found in late Cambrian strata. [ 1 ] The class developed during the middle Cambrian, and underwent pulses of diversification during the Ordovician period [ 2 ] to become diverse and dominant in the Paleozoic and Mesozoic seas.