Fossils

Question 1

Is a Brachiopod Equivalve or Inequivalve

Answer 1

Inequivalve

Question 2

Is a Brachiopod Equilateral

Answer 2

Yes

Question 3

Is a Brachiopod Inequilateral

Answer 3

No

Question 4

Are Brachiopods marine?

Answer 4

Yes - exclusively

Question 5

What type of feeder is a brachiopod

Answer 5

Benthic sessile and attached to seafloor

Question 6

When did Brachiopods live?

Answer 6

Ord - Recent

Question 7

When were Brachiopods most abundant

Answer 7

Palaezoic

Question 8

What are both valves of Brachiopod called

Answer 8

Pedicle and Brachial Valve

Question 9

Are Bivalves equivalve or inequivalve

Answer 9

Equivalve

Question 10

When did bivalves live

Answer 10

Cambrian to Recent

Question 11

What type of feeder was a bivalve

Answer 11

Suspension filter feeder

Question 12

Are bivalves molluscs?

Answer 12

Yes

Question 13

Can some bivalves be equilateral?

Answer 13

Yes

Question 14

Name species of Bivalve which can swim

Answer 14

Pecten

Question 15

Name sessile bivalve notably found in cretaceous

Answer 15

Rudists (form reefs)

Question 16

Name the main fauna you would find in a tropical lagoon.

Answer 16

Sea grass, Finger Corals, Sea fans, Brain Coral

Question 17

Which came first, Triassic or Permian?

Answer 17

Permian

Question 18

When did tabulate corals live?

Answer 18

Early Ordivician - Permian (abundant in Silurian)

Question 19

What is the difference between Tabulate and Rugose Corals?

Answer 19

Tabulate are colonial - Rugose are mostly solitary

Tabulate have tabulae - Rugose have septa and deseppiments.

Question 20

When did Rugose Corals live?

Answer 20

Middle Ord - Permian

Question 21

When did Scleratinian Corals live?

Answer 21

Triassic - Recent

Question 22

Are Scleractinian Corals made of aragonite or calcite?

Answer 22

Aragonite

Question 23

Are Scleractinian Corals colonial or solitary?

Answer 23

Both

Question 24

What part of the sponge does the water exit?

Answer 24

Osculum

Question 25

What part of the sponge does water enter?

Answer 25

Ostium

Question 26

What are Rudists?

Answer 26

Bivalves which formed reef-like structures and lived in shallow marine during the Cretaceous

Question 27

Ring-like fossil?

Answer 27

Archaeocythanids - lived in Cambrian

Question 28

How would you identify a Crinoid?

Answer 28

Polo-mint like stems

Question 29

What are crinoids

Answer 29

Form of echinoderm - Been around since Ordivician

Question 30

Where do crinoids live?

Answer 30

Ancient fossils lived in shallow marine and modern day species are more deep marine. Mostly filter feeders on sea floor but some are planktonic and float in water column.

Question 31

What was significant about the Silurian?

Answer 31

First terrestrial plants

Question 32

Name the fauna/biota found in Silurian.

Answer 32

Cooksonia, Aglalophyton, Rhynia from Rhynie Chert, Monograptus, T and R corals most abundant here

Question 33

When did plants start to produce wood?

Answer 33

Middle Devonian

Question 34

When did roots start to get deeper?

Answer 34

Late Devonian

Question 35

What was found in the carboniferous

Answer 35

Coal, Stigmaria, Calamites, Lepedodendron,

Question 36

When did grasses form and why were they important?

Answer 36

Cretaceous - food source for mammals

Question 37

What is a cephalopod

Answer 37

A type of mollusc

Question 38

When did cephalopods live

Answer 38

Late Camb - Recent

Question 39

What are bullet shaped fossils?

Answer 39

Belemites

Question 40

When did belemnites live?

Answer 40

Ord - Cret (most common in Jurr and Cret)

Question 41

Were belemites internal or externally shelled?

Answer 41

Internally

Question 42

What are the chambers called in cephalopods?

Answer 42

Camera (Ar gas flows in and out to move)

Question 43

When did nautiloid live?

Answer 43

Cambrian - Recent

Question 44

When did goniatite live?

Answer 44

Devonian - Permian

Question 45

When did Ceratites live?

Answer 45

Late Permian - Triassic

Question 46

When did Ammonites live?

Answer 46

Jurassic and Cretaceous

Question 47

Are Trilobites exclusively marine?

Answer 47

Yes

Question 48

When were Trilobites most abundant?

Answer 48

Lower Palaeozoic or Cambrian

Question 49

What is the head of a trilobite called?

Answer 49

Cephalon

Question 50

When did Trilobites go extinct?

Answer 50

Late Permian

Question 51

Were Trilobites benthic or pelagic?

Answer 51

Benthic burrowers, plough, some could swim

Question 52

Where did Trilobites live?

Answer 52

Continental Seafloor (plenty of food)

Question 53

What is so important about Proetids

Answer 53

Survived Devonian and last order to survive till Late Permian