Fossil Flashcards
Fossils
Imprints
Molds
Casts
Remains of a living organism
When soft body structures are pressed into developing rock and leave an imprint/impression
Hollow
Filled
Carbon film fossils
Petrified fossils
Original remains
Amber
Imprints
Bone decay and filled with rock
Ice or tar
Hardened tree sap
Archaeopteryx
Bird from reptiles
Horse series
Whale series
Gets bigger and less toes
Bigger then only to water animals then nose on forehead
Circumstantial evidence
Cambrian explosion
Interpretation
Where 95% of all fossils are found in this layer of rocks…. Implying the flood
Stasis
Animals where the same in the fossils as they are now… No change
Link fossils (also called …. ?)
Transitional/immediate forms the transition from one form to another
Punctuated equilibrium
Worldview
Lot of change in a little amount of time
Bias, preconceptions going in
Coelacanth
Extinct
Hoatzin
The transitional fro fish to amphibian
Where a species has died out
South American bird with claws