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1. Divide the work between team members2. Check each others work3. Work on the fossils assign to your team4. Use the sample flash cards posted to the schools Science Olympiad web

site under the Fossil event. Sample Files are:1. FlashCardsFusulinidsNummulites.ppt2. FlashCardsHemichordataMucrospirifer.pptx

5. Save your flash card files using this name:1. FlashCardsName of FossileName of Fossil Example is: FlashCardsFusulinidsNummulites.ppt

For Fossil pictures start with these 3 files loaded on the school Science Olympiad web site2009-Fossil-Poster.pdf2009-Fossil-Notes-B.pdf 2009-Fossil-Notes-B2.pdf

Another good source is:Web Site: http://scioly.org/wiki/index.php/Fossil_List

Flash Cards Instructions

Fossils in the News

                                                                                                                                           Joseph Groenke/Stony Brook University/APView CaptionMadagascar, long known for an bizarre assortment of dinosaurs and early mammals, has yielded up another unusual creature – one that could help researchers figure out how long mammals truly have trod the Earth.An international team of scientists has uncovered a virtually complete skull of an animal they've named Vintana sertichi. Its traits place it within a group of mammals known as Gondwanatheria.The new specimen hails from rock formations in northwestern Madagascar that date to between 72 million and 66 million years ago, toward the end of the Cretaceous and the reign of dinosaurs. V. sertichi's skull measures just under 5 inches long, leading the team to estimate that the rodent-like animal weighed about 20 pounds – the largest mammal yet found from the Mesozoic period on what once was Gondwana and the second largest mammal from the Mesozoic worldwide.

Start of Game

Test/GameTest/Game

• This picture shows what type of a fossil:

A - Cast

B - Mold

C - Trace

Answer is: B - Mold Answer

Casts and MoldsCasts and Molds

Fossils can be in the form of Casts or Molds

Test/GameTest/Game

• What time period did this sea creature live:

A - Jurassic

B - Late Ordovician

C - Middle Cambrian

D - Neoarchean

Answer is: C - Middle CambrianAnswer

Paradoxides

Test/GameTest/Game

• Find the Trilobite section in your book.

• Find the Trilobite

•Look for the “Range”

Paradoxides

Test/GameTest/Game• What is the correct relationship of Time period names:

A - Epoch, Era, Period, Eon, Age

B - Eon, Era, Period, Epoch, Age

C - Period, Cambrian, Era, Epoch

D - Eon, Period, Era, Epoch, Age

Answer is: B - Eon, Era, Period, Epoch, Age

Answer

Test/GameTest/Game• How many Eons are there:

Answer is: 4Answer

Test/GameTest/Game• What are the names of the 4 Eons:

A - Hadean, Phanerozoic, Proterozoic, Archean

B - Cenozoic, Mesozoic, Paleozoic

C - Hadean, Paleozoic, Proterozoic, Archean

D - Mesozoic, Phanerozoic, Proterozoic, Archean

• Answer is: A - Hadean, Phanerozoic, Proterozoic, Archean Answer

 

3 E

ON

S

4th EON named

Phanerozoic

Test/GameTest/Game• The word fossil comes from the Latin word fossilis, which means:

A - Meaning to floss ones teeth

B - Referring to false bones

C - Means old

D - Things that are dug up

Answer is: D - Things that are dug up

Answer

Test/GameWhat is the mode of Preservation?A

B

E

D

C

Option 1A. PermineralizationB. PetrifictionC. TarD. AmberE. Frozen

Option 3A. AmberB. FrozenC. TarD. PermineralizationE. Petrifiction

Option 2A. AmberB. FrozenC. TarD. PetrifictionE. Permineralization

Answer is: Option 3

Answer

Test/GameTest/Game• Which Epoch is not associated with the age of Mammals:

A - Oligocene E - Eocene

B - Paleocene

C - Cretaceous

D - Miocene

• Answer is: C - CretaceousAnswer

Test/GameTest/Game• Which Epoch is associated with the age of Amphibians:

A - Jurassic

B - Carboniferous

C - Pliocene

D - Miocene

• Answer is: B - CarboniferousAnswer

Ages of Geological Time

Era Period or Epoch Age

 Cenozoic Pleistocene Age of Man

Pliocene

Miocene

Oligocene Age of Mammals

Eocene

Paleocene

Mesozoic Cretaceous

Jurassic Age of Reptiles

Triassic

 Paleozoic Permian

Carboniferous Age of Amphibians

Devonian

Silurian Age of Fishes

Ordovician

Cambrian Age of Sea Life

 

Test/GameTest/Game• From oldest to Youngest list these fossils.

1 - A, B, C

2 - B, A, C

3 - C, A, B

Answer is: 2 - B, A, CAnswer

A

B

C

Test/GameTest/Game• Crinoids Dimerocrinites

Silurian-Devonian

• Ophiuroidea Paleocoma or Brittle Star

E. Jurassic

Archaeopteryx - Late Jurassic

Lived, in what is now southern Germany during a time when Europe was an archipelago of islands in a shallow warm tropical sea, much closer to the equator than it is now. A genus of early bird that is transitional between feathered dinosaurs and modern birds. The name derives from the ancient Greek ἀρχαῖος (archaīos) meaning "ancient", and πτέρυξ (ptéryx), meaning "feather" or "wing".

Test/GameTest/Game• Identify these two fossils.

Answer is: A- Conus B - Platyceras

Answer

BA

B

Test/GameTest/Game

Fossils of Conus have been recovered from the Late Cretaceous – to Recent

• Identify these two fossils.

A

B

Platyceras is a genus of extinct Paleozoic sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Platyceratidae. This genus is known from the Silurian to Early Carboniferous periods. has distinctive shape that is easily recognized. The cap-like shell is high and broad anteriorly. The posterior portion of the shell, at the apex, is usually slightly coiled in an asymmetrical fashion.

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