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Historical Geology (1-1) > 10/21 - 10/23 (Paleozoic INVERTEBRATES) > Flashcards

10/21 - 10/23 (Paleozoic INVERTEBRATES) Flashcards

Deck 4 (#2)

1
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What was the Cambrian Explosion?

A

an abundance of fossils in rock came out of nowhere

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What were the earliest shells.

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Ediacaran faunas

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3
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Advantages of an exoskeleton are..?

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protection against UV radiation / helps against drying out / allows animals to grow larger and attach muscles / protects against predators

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4
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Define Pelagic

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organisms that live in the water column

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5
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One word to describe Plankton and Nekton

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Floaters and swimmers

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6
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Define Benthos? What are the 5 subcategories of them?

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Lives on the seafloor /// Epifauna / Epiflora /Infauna / Sessile / Mobile

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One word to describe Epifauna and Epiflora?

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1st - animal / 2nd - plants

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8
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Define Infauna, Sessile, and Mobile. (Benthos)

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I - organisms that live under the bottom / S - organisms that stay in place / M -Organisms that . . . move

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Name the 4 types of feeding. (marine)

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Suspension-feeding (filter-feeders) / Herbivores / Carnivore-scavengers / Sediment-deposit feeders

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Define & give an example of Suspension-feeding.

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grab bits of food from water column. AKA filter-feeders. / Sponges, corals, zooplankton, and clams

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Define & give an example Sediment-deposit feeders.

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mud eaters / worms

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12
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An organism’s place in an ecosystem is defined by..?

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where it lives and how it eats

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13
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Define Trophic Levels.

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levels of food production and consumption

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Define Primary Producers.

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usually autotrophs (make their own food) like plants, chemosynthetic bacteria and plankton

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Define Primary Consumers.

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usually herbivores

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16
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Define Secondary Consumers

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usually first level carnivores

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17
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Define Tertiary consumers

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top-tier predators that eat lower level predators and herbivores

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18
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Describe Trilobites by Benthos & more.

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Benthic, mobile, sediment-deposit feeders (some are carnivores) / 1/2 of Cambrian Fauna

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Describe Brachiopods by Benthos & more.

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Inarticulates - Simple, benthic, sessile filter feeders. / Still around today! /// Articulates - Benthic, sessile, filter feeding animals / had a hinge

20
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What is the plane of symmetry to the hinge on both Brachiopods and Bivalves.

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Brachiopods - perpendicular to hinge / Bivalves - Parallel to Hinge

21
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Are clams Brachiopods or Bivalves?

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Bivalves

22
Q

Describe Archaeocyathids by Benthos & more.

A

Benthic, sessile, suspension feeders / Sponges…maybe?

23
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Describe Sponges by Benthos & more.

A

Sessile, benthic, filter feeders / Maybe Archaeocyathids

24
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Give info on Cnidaria.

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Most pulled up in Cambrian / Includes true corals and jellyfish

25
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Give info on Molluscs.

A

Mobile marine herbivores & carnivores (majority of snails - carnivores) / Included Gastropods (snails), Clams, and
Cephalopods

26
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Describe Annelids by Benthos & more.

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Infaunal, benthic, sediment-deposit feeders & epifaunal, benthic, filter feeders / regular segmented worms & sea-pens

27
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Describe Crinoids ‘sea lily’ by Benthos & more.

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Sessile, benthic, filter-feeders / First appear in Cambrian / Still around today! / Nick-named the ‘sea lily’ but are actually animals.

28
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Describe Graptolites by Benthos & more.

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Planktic, filter feeders / Reproduce by cloning/budding / Had saw-toothed form / Lasted until the Mississippian

29
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What’s special about Burgess Shale Biota?

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Contains exceptionally preserved soft- bodied animals /
Many forms can’t be categorized to a known phyla / Basically we still don’t know what some of these animals were #Hallucigenia

30
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Shout out my boy Hallucigenia!

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😛

31
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Describe the Opabinia.

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Extinct arthropod / head shows unusual features: 5 eyes, mouth under the head facing backwards, and clawed proboscis that prolly passed food to mouth.

32
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Give info on Wiwaxia.

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did it exist??? We not sure, its just there

33
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Describe the Anomalocaris.

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Large Cambrian and 1st Tertiary Consumer / Grew abt 1 meter / Had barbed arms, large developed eyes, and a slim, elongate profile / could move VERY fast

34
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Describe Ordovician Marine Community

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Dominated by the brachiopods, bryozoans, stromatoporoids, and corals / Huge increase in marine fauna

35
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Describe Bryozoans by Benthos & more.

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Sessile, benthic, epifaunal suspension feeders / microscopic aquatic invertebrates that built small reef complexes thru Paleozoic (corals) / ‘moss animals’ /

36
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Give info on Stromatoporoids

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type of calcareous sponge / important reef & mound builders during the Ordovician

37
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Give info on Corals.

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1st corals (wrinkly horn corals and their tabulate relatives) appear in Ordovician, and dominate reef building environment

38
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Percentage of all species that were destroyed in Ordovician Mass Extinction? How did this extinction MAY HAVE come about?

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88% / Glaciation

39
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What are the 5 major mass extensions? What was the biggest?

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Ordovician Extinction / Devonian Extinction / Permian Extinction
Triassic Extinction / Cretaceous Extinction /// Permian Extinction

40
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Give info on Eurypterids

A

Arthropod class of predators / Commonly known as ‘sea scorpions’

41
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Give info on Ammonoid Cephalopods

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Evolved from simple nautiloids / Dominant predators in Devonian

42
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Percentage of all species that were destroyed in Devonian Mass Extinction

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87%

43
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What species dominant during Mississippian?

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Crinoids

44
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Give info on Crinoids

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Dominated reef structures / Turned most of Laurasia platform into semi-consolidated muds and skeletal debris

45
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Give info on Blastoids

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Smaller cousins of crinoids / Nicknamed ‘sea buds’ / last till mid-Permian / Crinoids and blastoids belong to phylum Echinodermata because of radial symmetry

46
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Percentage of species destroyed in Permian Mass Extinction?

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Approx. 95%

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