Cornell College: Geology Club The paleontology reveals an abundance of marine as the remains of rare marine vertebrates (fish). brachiopods, echinoderms, bryozoans, rugosan corals, and rare http://www.cornellcollege.edu/geo_club/Sparks.htm
Extractions: Sparks From the Rock Pile: 1997 Sparks from the Rock Pile is a newsletter created every other year to report on the the happenings around the department. Sparks includes information on recent student research projects, recent graduates and current majors, as well as other events taking place in the department. Recent Student Research Projects "Madagascar Expedition" by Ray Rogers This past summer Eric Roberts (class of 1996) and I participated in an NSF-funded expedition to the dinosaur-bearing beds of the Majunga Basin in northwestern Madagascar. The primary goal of the expedition was to sample the Cretaceous flora and fauna, and thereby gain a better understanding of the evolutionary history of the island's exotic and highly endemic modern biota. Eric and I had the additional chore of placing the paleontological discoveries in a geological context. We would both return tomorrow if we had the opportunity, and if things work out as planned, we will. But first, we need to work up our geologic data and publish a few reports pertaining to our adventure. Along these lines, Eric is busily preparing a report on some modifications found on the fossil bones while pursuing his master's degree at the University of Montana. "Mapping Bedrock Geology in Vermont" by Shawn Wolfe (class of 1998) This past summer (1996), Peter and Thelma Thompson invited Kurt Haiar (class of 1997) and myself to assist them in their tenth season of mapping bedrock geology in areas of Vermont. With other geologists mapping throughout most of the state, our main goal was to make revisions to the 1961 Vermont State Geologic Map. Having ideas of possible traverses and high expectations for the summer, Peter, Thelma, and myself set off for our field area in Vermont in early June (Kurt arrived in mid-July).
Extractions: This index lists the titles of the articles appearing in the Digest about paleontology or mentioning fossils in chronological order and gives the author, number, year, pages, if there are maps, and if there are illustrations of fossils (ill.). Following this list are three alphabetical indexesauthor, geographic, and subjectkeyed to the titles by the numbers appearing in brackets to the left of each title. There is also a list of individual volume titles given to some of the numbers of the Digest
DLESE Find A Resource > Subject: Paleontology fossils and paintings about marine reptiles and fish who flourished Subject paleontology. abundant remains of mollusks, whales, birds, corals, barnacles, and http://www.dlese.org/dds/browse_su_0n-10.htm
Extractions: Results 11-20 of 378 = DLESE Reviewed Collection Palaeontologica Electronica http://palaeo-electronica.org/index.htm Submit a teaching tip Palaeontologica Electronica is a peer-reviewed, online journal of paleontology. Articles span a wide spectrum of topics in paleontology including micropaleontology, palynology, invertebrate paleontology, paleobotany, vertebrate paleontology or related biological disciplines. Users can follow links to current articles, archived articles, volume indexes, editorials, author resources and sponsor information... Full description This resource is in these collections: Starting Point Grade level: Graduate / Professional College (13-14) College (15-16) Resource type: Periodical Subject: Paleontology Oceans of Kansas http://www.oceansofkansas.com/index.html Submit a teaching tip Oceans of Kansas is the unofficial, but highly useful, web page of the Sternberg Museum of Natural History. To find content, scroll to the middle of the page. The website contains information on exhibits, articles with photographs of fossils and paintings about marine reptiles and fish who flourished in the Western Interior Sea... Full description This resource is in these collections: Starting Point Grade level: Graduate / Professional College (13-14) College (15-16) Resource type: Commercial portal Subject: Paleontology Early Image: A collection of illustrations from popular sources.
DLESE Find A Resource > Subject: Geologic Time of these animals, plus red and green algae, primitive fish, cephalopods, corals, crinoids, and material. Subject Geologic time , paleontology. http://www.dlese.org/dds/browse_su_0d-90.htm
Extractions: Results 91-100 of 239 = DLESE Reviewed Collection Relative Dating in Archaeology http://www.nmnh.si.edu/anthro/outreach/edreldat.html Submit a review Submit a teaching tip These two classroom exercises introduce students to stratigraphy and the law of superposition as well as seriation, dating techniques used by archaeologists to establish a relative chronology. They can be adapted to students at different levels using local materials. In the first exercise, dated materials such as newspapers may be used to illustrate the concepts; students may then manipulate materials to simulate mapping and excavation or create a poster... Full description This resource supports educational standards This resource is in these collections: DLESE Community Collection (DCC) Community Review System (CRS) Grade level: High (9-12) Resource type: Classroom activity Subject: Geologic time Human geography Geologic Cross-Section and Column http://www.geosociety.org/educate/LessonPlans/geologic_Xsection.pdf Submit a teaching tip Using relative dating techniques, this lesson has students construct a geologic cross-section and a corresponding geologic column out of construction paper. Full description This resource is in these collections: DLESE Community Collection (DCC) Grade level: High (9-12) Middle (6-8) Resource type: Classroom activity Subject: Geologic time Geology Denver's Prehistoric Journey http://www.geosociety.org/educate/LessonPlans/Prehistoric_Journey.pdf
Kokoamu Greensand – Late Oligocene, New Zealand usually rarer groups include corals, echinoderms, other for fossil vertebrates fish, sharks, penguins paleontology Department of Geology http//www.otago http://www.otago.ac.nz/geology/features/paleontology/kokoamu.html
Extractions: Kokoamu Greensand Vanished World Trail By R. Ewan Fordyce Close-up of the surface of a block of Kokoamu Greensand, showing abundant small brachiopods mostly under 10 mm across. Towards lower left is the incomplete large spine of a sea urchin. Fragments of smooth-shelled scallops are also present. The Kokoamu Greensand is a noted fossiliferous Oligocene rock unit in the eastern South Island, especially in South Canterbury and North Otago. Fossils are rarely abundant in the greensand, except in a few pockets. Brachiopods, scallops and rare gastropods sometimes form thin shell-beds near the top of the greensand. Significant but usually rarer groups include corals, echinoderms, other molluscs, and crustaceans. Most of the fossils are delicate, and are recovered with difficulty. Some examples of Kokoamu fossils are in the Vanished World trail brochure (Fordyce 2002).
Museum Victoria [ed-online] Dinosaurs & Fossils have lived in warm, clear shallow seas, as do modern reefbuilding corals. in their forming more than 90% of all species of fish today Vertebrate paleontology. http://www.museum.vic.gov.au/dinosaurs/lifetime-oceans.html
Extractions: Websites This segment deals with the proliferation of life in the oceans during the Palaeozoic Era (545-251 million years ago), following the appearance of the first animals with hard shells at the beginning of the Cambrian Period. By the end of the Cambrian, all major groups of animals (phyla) with representatives living today had appeared, except for the bryozoans which first appear in the fossil record at the beginning of the succeeding Ordovician Period. A faunal radiation in the Ordovician populated the seas with many types of animals that continued to flourish throughout the remainder of the Palaeozoic. Assemblages of fossils similar to those in the Burgess Shale have been discovered in Cambrian rocks at a few other places in the world, including China, the United States and South Australia, demonstrating that such faunas were widely distributed in the oceans at this time. Their rarity as fossils is thus due to the unusual conditions required for their preservation. These faunas show the great diversity of marine life at a very early stage in the history of metazoans. The major groups of invertebrates present in the Palaeozoic are as follows.
Extractions: PaleoLinks Topics in Paleobiology Adaptation and Functional Morphology Biomechanics of Eurypterids Computational Paleontology Morphometrics - State University of New York @ Stony Brook Shell Coiling - Interactive Simulations: Raup's analysis comes alive! Virtual Reality Fossils - Natural History Museum, London Darwin Day Program - with links Darwinia - Online source for information on Charles Darwin The Alfred Russel Wallace Page- his ideas on natural selection, zoogeography, biodiversity, and more Evolution Links - Univ. of Toronto Evolution Links - Harvard Univ. Evolutionary Theory Evolution vs. Creation Debate Creationist Geologic Time Scale - An Attack Strategy for the Sciences Evolution vs. Creationism Understanding Evolution - A website for teachers - U. Cal. Berkley Extinctions Cretaceous Impact Cycles Mass Extinctions of the Phanerozoic Recoveries From Mass Extinctions Genetics and Development DNA From the Beginning - A primer on the basics of DNA, genes, and heredity.
Undersea Volcanoes In Deep Trouble, Eco-Groups Say Seamounts are also considered important nursery areas for deep sea fish. Like the corals and sponges, many of these fish are longlived and slow to mature. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/12/1211_031211_seamounts.html
Extractions: Rising from the depths of the North Atlantic, seamounts are described by conservationists as oases of life. The underwater volcanoes harbor a vast array of deep sea creatures, many of them still unknown to science. They also attract large numbers of fish, which in turn have attracted the attention of commercial fishing fleets. Environmentalists now say such attention could destroy these precious ecosystems. A report published last month identifies commercial fishing as the major threat to the biodiversity of seamounts in the North Atlantic, while marine scientists are calling for urgent conservation action to protect seamounts worldwide. The report was published jointly by World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Germany and the Oceanic Seamounts: An Integrated Study (OASIS) project. The latter involves marine scientists throughout Europe and is funded by the European Union. The study aims to shed light on the natural history of seamounts in the northeast Atlantic Ocean and their contribution to the ecology of the surrounding ocean. Read the full
Finding Nemo Spotlights Dark Side Of Pet-Fish Trade The very poisonous chemical also kills smaller fish, irreparably harms the corals, and is dangerous to divers, according to conservationists. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/05/0530_030530_nemo1.html
Extractions: As a young clownfish named Nemo enchants moviegoers with his epic adventure from the ocean to a fish tank and beyond, the actor whose voice brings the animated character to life is urging protection for tropical fish and coral reefs. "Practically the whole world depends on coral reefs, so if the coral reefs get all killed, then the ocean will start going out of whack, and if the ocean goes out of whack something might happen on land," said Alexander Gould, the nine-year-old actor who is the voice of the namesake character in the movie. Alexander Gould, who plays the voice of Nemo and is a spokesperson for the Marine Aquarium Council , stands with a plush version of the clownfish that is featured in Disney's animated movie.
Fossil Groups - Dinoflagellates Some of them cause red tides, which can kill fish or poison humans who eat the fish or shellfish that have eaten the Some live within animals such as corals. http://geology.er.usgs.gov/paleo/dinoflag.shtml
Extractions: Dinoflagellates are single-celled organisms that live in oceans, estuaries, lakes, and ponds. Some of them are bioluminescent they cause a sparkling of the sea at night as the waves break. Some of them cause "red tides," which can kill fish or poison humans who eat the fish or shellfish that have eaten the dinoflagellates. The Red Sea may have gotten its name from dinoflagellate blooms. Dinoflagellates are most often considered to be plants because many make their own food using air, water, and sunlight. Some dinoflagellates eat other plants or eat small or large animals. Some live within animals such as corals. Many dinoflagellates have a complex life cycle that includes a resting stage. During this stage, the dinoflagellate may live in a very durable capsule called a dinocyst . The dinocyst is studied by paleontologists. Unlike many other fossils, the dinocyst is not a dead dinoflagellate. It is more like a cocoon. There is an opening in the dinocyst through which the dinoflagellate, like a butterfly, exited and went on its merry way. Dinocysts are found in the muds, sands, and other sediments at the bottoms of modern ocean, estuaries, lakes, and ponds. They are found as fossils in mudstones, sandstones, and limestones formed long ago.
Thiel Aqua Tech Explore, Links To Other Sites Perhaps the Largest Reference on corals and Researchers you will ever come accross. Site with a larger number of graphics on fish and invertebrates; Aquatics http://www.athiel.com/html/explore.html
Extractions: contains only "good" links from the list below as of late January, 2004. No need to flounder around, just click on any of these links to access a veritable "ocean" of information. If we've missed any you find particularly interesting, please let us know: Email Us (NOTE: We know that many of the links below are dead; maintenance of this page has ended, as we are migrating the links into a new application, which is available here The New Netpets Site The Reef Check Web Site . A great source of information. Coral Health Monitoring Program Link and links to related sites. Lists many other sites of interest to reefkeepers. Perhaps the Largest Reference on Corals and Researchers you will ever come accross. Site with a larger number of graphics on fish and invertebrates Aquatics Net The Aquatics Network.
Paleozoic Paleobiology In addition, blastoids, bryozoans, corals, crinoids, as well as many kinds Remains of Ostracoderms (jawless, armored fish) from Ordovician rocks comprise some http://www.fossilmuseum.net/Paleobiology/Paleozoic_paleobiology.htm
Extractions: The Paleozoic Era lasted from 544 to 245 million years ago, and is divided into six periods. These 300 million years of the Paleozoic era realized many critical events in evolution, including the development of most invertebrate groups, life's conquest of land, the evolution of fish, reptiles, insects, and vascular plants, the formation of the supercontinent of Pangea. Fish and fish-like vertebrates arose in the early Paleoozoic and comprise more than half of the diversity of vertebrates that inhabit the world today. Also importantly, there were also no less than two ice ages in the Paleozoic. Cambrian Period (544 to 505 mya) The name Cambrian derives from Cambria, the Roman name for Wales, where rocks of this age were first studied. Hard-shelled animals appeared in great numbers for the first time during the Cambrian, significantly because shallow seas flooded the continents. Gondwana formed near the South Pole. The Cambrian truly is an astonishing period in evolution of life on earth. Most major groups of animals first appear in the fossil record, an event popularly and scientifically called the "
Introduction To Cnidaria Introduction to Cnidaria. Jellyfish, corals, and other stingers. . . Cnidarians are incredibly diverse in form, as evidenced by colonial siphonophores, massive medusae and corals, feathery hydroids http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/cnidaria/cnidaria.html
Extractions: Jellyfish, corals, and other stingers. . . Cnidarians are incredibly diverse in form , as evidenced by colonial siphonophores , massive medusae and corals , feathery hydroids , and box jellies with complex eyes Yet, these diverse animals are all armed with stinging cells called nematocysts. Cnidarians are united based on the presumption that their nematocysts have been inherited from a single common ancestor. The name Cnidaria comes from the Greek word "cnidos" , which means stinging nettle. Casually touching many cnidarians will make it clear how they got their name when their nematocysts eject barbed threads tipped with poison. Many thousands of cnidarian species live in the world's oceans, from the tropics to the poles, from the surface to the bottom. Some even burrow. A smaller number of species are found in rivers and fresh water lakes. There are four major groups of cnidarians Anthozoa , which includes true corals, anemones, and sea pens; Cubozoa , the amazing box jellies with complex eyes and potent toxins; Hydrozoa , the most diverse group with siphonophores, hydroids, fire corals, and many medusae; and
Houston Gem And Mineral Society The Houston Gem Mineral Society. paleontology Library Index. Sort by Title. Sort by Author. The Paleo library is a lending library open during paleo section meetings and often on Saturdays to all http://www.hgms.org/reference/lib-frame1.html
