petrified wood and DNA remnants. The totality of fossils is known as the fossil record. Though the fossil record is incomplete, numerous studies have demonstrated...
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Fossil Record is a biannual peer-reviewed scientific journal covering palaeontology. It was established in 1998 as the Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für...
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The fossil record of fire first appears with the establishment of a land-based flora in the Middle Ordovician period, 470 million years ago, permitting...
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living fossil is an extant taxon that phenotypically resembles related species known only from the fossil record. To be considered a living fossil, the...
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The Lepidoptera fossil record encompasses all butterflies and moths that lived before recorded history. The fossil record for Lepidoptera is lacking in...
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Because of the incompleteness of the fossil record, there is usually no way to know exactly how close a transitional fossil is to the point of divergence. Therefore...
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dictionary. A trace fossil, also known as an ichnofossil ( /ˈɪknoʊfɒsɪl/; from Greek: ἴχνος ikhnos "trace, track"), is a fossil record of biological activity...
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Paleoleishmania, a kinetoplastid). Others are relatively common in the fossil record, as the diatoms, golden algae, haptophytes (coccoliths), silicoflagellates...
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arthropod multi-opsin vision, as indicated by molecular data and data from fossil record, is published by Fleming et al. (2018). Grimaldi et al. (2018) report...
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Fossil wood, also known as fossilized tree, is wood that is preserved in the fossil record. Over time the wood will usually be the part of a plant that...
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Crustacean (redirect from Fossil crustaceans)
worms) and some are sessile (e.g. barnacles). The group has an extensive fossil record, reaching back to the Cambrian. More than 7.9 million tons of crustaceans...
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Paleontology (redirect from Fossil taxon)
biology and geology since it focuses on the record of past life, but its main source of evidence is fossils in rocks. For historical reasons, paleontology...
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A fossil fuel is a carbon compound- or hydrocarbon-containing material such as coal, oil, and natural gas, formed naturally in the Earth's crust from the...
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Exostosis (section Fossil record)
in the fossil record is studied by paleopathologists, specialists in ancient disease and injury. Exostosis has been reported in dinosaur fossils from several...
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Arthropod (section Fossil record)
most likely derived from terrestrial scorpion ancestors. The oldest fossil record of hexapod is obscure, as most of the candidates are poorly preserved...
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Scutigeromorpha (section Fossil record)
(2010-03-01). "The geological record and phylogeny of the Myriapoda". Arthropod Structure & Development. Fossil Record and Phylogeny of the Arthropoda...
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Bubalina (section In fossil record)
Australia. In addition to the living species, bubalinans have an extensive fossil record where remains have been found in much of Afro-Eurasia. Despite being...
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Passerine (section Fossil record)
affinities, the constraints of morphology, and the specifics of the fossil record. The first passerines are now thought to have evolved in the Southern...
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Acacia (section Fossil record)
fossil pollen of an Acacia sp. has been described from West Georgia (including Abkhazia). The oldest fossil Acacia pollen in Australia are recorded as...
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Coelacanth (redirect from Post Cretaceous Coelacanth fossils)
taxon, an evolutionary line that seems to have disappeared from the fossil record only to reappear much later. Since 1938, West Indian Ocean coelacanth...
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Tarsier (section Fossil record)
considered an anthropoid primate. So far, four fossil species of tarsiers are known from the fossil record: Tarsius eocaenus is known from the Middle Eocene...
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Tephra (section Disciplines and fossil record)
tephra layer. These fossils are later dated by scientists to determine the age of the fossil and its place within the geologic record. Tephra is any sized...
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Falcon (section Fossil record)
recognizable in the fossil record. As of 2021, the oldest falconid fossil is estimated to be 55 million years old. Given the distribution of fossil and living...
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Trilobite (section Fossil record of early trilobites)
known groups of arthropods. The first appearance of trilobites in the fossil record defines the base of the Atdabanian stage of the Early Cambrian period...
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the effort to understand the history of life on Earth by studying the fossil record left behind by living organisms. Since it is concerned with understanding...
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Paleobotany (redirect from Plant fossil)
plants are first found in the fossil record during the Silurian Period of the Paleozoic era. Some dispersed, fragmentary fossils of disputed affinity, primarily...
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Diprotodontia (section Fossil record)
known fossils date to the late Oligocene, but their genesis certainly lies earlier than this, as large gaps occur in Australia's fossil record, with virtually...
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Ankylosis (section Fossil record)
in the fossil record is studied by paleopathologists, specialists in ancient disease and injury. Ankylosis has been reported in dinosaur fossils from several...
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The paleopedological record is, essentially, the fossil record of soils. The paleopedological record consists chiefly of paleosols buried by flood sediments...
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Bilateria (section Fossil record)
evidence of bilateria in the fossil record comes from trace fossils in Ediacaran sediments, and the first bona fide bilaterian fossil is Kimberella, dating to...
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