1 / 7

Fossil Records

Fossil Records. By : Kate, Susannah , Emma, and Anne. What is a Fossil?. The prehistoric remains of an animal or a plant Can be dated through carbon dating. Study of Fossil is Paleontology . Fossil Facts. Age of earliest fossil: about 3.8 billion years old.

shayna
Download Presentation

Fossil Records

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Fossil Records By: Kate, Susannah, Emma, and Anne

  2. What is a Fossil? • The prehistoric remains of an animal or a plant • Can be dated through carbon dating. • Study of Fossil is Paleontology

  3. Fossil Facts • Age of earliest fossil: about 3.8 billion years old. • It was a fossil of a cyanobacteria

  4. Evidence that support evolution • Provides snapshots of the past. • They illustrate a panorama of evolutionary change over the past four billion years. • There may be bits missing, but fossil evidence clearly shows that life is old and has changed over time. Source: http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/0_0_0/lines_02

  5. What parts are fossilized • Footprints/ prints • Bones • Seeds • Leaves • Ripple marks in a prehistoric shore • Eggs • Dinosaur dung

  6. Formation of Fossils • Fossils can form in Amber • Buried in mud • Either in or over the sediment of rocks • Animals can be trapped from natural disasters

  7. Method of dating(Radioactive decay) • Also known as carbon dating • Arranges it through oldest to newest. • Creates sequence in chronological order and can see where speciation occurred or evolution. • Used to compare living species to past species and can know how old they were by dating the bones.

More Related