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Fossils 1 Flashcards

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Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda

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Phylum: Brachiopoda

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Phylum: Bryoza

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Phylum: Cnideria

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Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda

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Phylum: Echinodermata
Class: Echinoidea

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Phylum: Echinodermata
Class: crinoidea

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Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia

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Kingdom: Plantae

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Single cell animals, small in size. Many secrete calcareous or siliceous shells, or cement debris into agglutinated shells. Generally, distinguished by their diminutive size.

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Phylum: Sarcodina

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Sponges. Plant-like animals, motionless, with somewhat irregular calcareous, siliceous, chitinous, or horny skeletons. Cells unorganized. Generally distinguished by their irregular shape and possession of rod-like spicules.

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Phylum Porifera

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Hydroids, corals, sea-anemones, and jellyfish. Fossils consist mainly of corals, which are radially symmetrical and have prominent septa.

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Phylum Cnideria

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Bi-valved animals; they exhibit bilateral symmetry, each half of each shell a mirror image of the other half (differs from Bibalvia).

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Phylum Brachiopoda

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Moss animals. Lacy, branching, or massive colonies, individuals of very small size. Animals “home” looks like a pin hole.

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Phylum Bryozoa

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Spiny skinned animals, with pronounced pentameral symmetry; skeletal elements are individual calcite crystals.

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Phylum Echinodermata

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Worms, typically fossilized as trace fossils

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Phylum Annelida

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Bivalves, snails, squids

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Phylum Mollusca

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Includes animals with jointed legs, segmented bodies and an ezterior chitinous skeleton such as insects, lobster, spiders, and trilobites

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Phylum Arthropoda

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Animals with a dorsal nerve cord and generally a backbone (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals).

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Phylum Chordata

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Bi-valved animals with two shells generally alike (symmetrical)

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Phylum Mollusca
Class Bivalvia

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Snails, generally coiled; lacks internal divisions

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Phylum Mollusca
Class Gastropoda

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Squid, nautilus, and octopus. Generally, only planispirally coiled shells with internal divisions are preserved as fossils.

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Phylum Mollusca
Class Cephalopoda

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Sea lilies; mostly attached; fossils usually occur as plates of the crinoid stem

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Phylum Echinodermata
Class Crinoidea

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Small, pentagonal, attached, crinoids-like, fossils look like closed rose buds

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Phylum Echinodermata
Class Blastoidea

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Starfish

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Phylum Echinodermata
Class Stelleroidea

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sea urchins, sand dollars

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Phylum Echinodermata
Class Echinoidea

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