9B Flashcards
Brachiopods
TS - Paleozoic (start of Ordovician to Permian mostly)
- Early Cambrian to now
H - shallow marine
Bryozoans
TS- Late Cambrian to now
H - all depths (mostly shallow)
Cephalopods
Late Cambrian to now
TS: Nautiloids - Paleozoic
Ammonoids - Mesozoic
Geographically wide range
Corals
Early Cambrian to now
H - Paleozoic corals found in limestone and mudstone
Crinoids
TS - early Ordovician to now (abundant in Paleozoic)
H - most live below 100m
Gastropods
TS - early Cambrian to now
H - wide range of adaptation
Graptolites
TS- middle Cambrian to early Mississippian (Ordovician and Silurian)
H - deep water shales, not shallow marine rocks
Pelecypods
TS - early Ordovician to now (Mesozoic and Cenozoic)
H - bottom dwellers in marine or fresh water (also intertidal zones)
Trilobites
TS - Early Cambrian to Permian (Cambrian > Ordovician)