Brachiopod hard parts have excellent preservation potential. As a result, the Museum’s Brachiopod collection has more than 300,000 specimens, including 10,000 type and figured specimens. Uniquely, the ...

19. What is the mode of preservation? What is your evidence? 20. What is the mode of preservation? What is your evidence? What information can you extract from this fossil? 21. These are both ...

Fossils can be broadly divided into body fossils and trace fossils. Body fossil – The remains of part (or all) of an actual organism. In the kits, the trilobite (2), brachiopod (3), dinosaur bone (4), ...

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a tiny animal distantly related to modern brachiopod bivalves. Thousands of L. fasciculata shells have been found in a South Australian fossil bed. More than 200 have holes punched in them ...

Now we know it was paced by carbon dioxide.” The researchers used the chemical fingerprints stored in fossil brachiopod shells, ancient clam-like organisms which are among the oldest existing ...