Collecting Fossil Bryozoans Bryozoans can be found as fossils in a wide variety of marine rocks. They are so abundant that their piled-up branches make the frame work for some limestones, including the …

Fossil Shark Teeth For over 300 years fossil shark teeth have been objects of both curiosity and study. They are common vertebrate fossils in rocks ranging in age from the Devonian time to the last Ice …

Crinoids are common fossils from Paleozoic-age marine rocks, although none have been found in Cambrian rocks (505—5 70 million years ago). Crinoids were sometimes so diverse and abundant …

Brachiopods belong to the large category of animals without backbones, the invertebrates. They have two shells or valves that are often composed of the mineral calcite (calcium carbonate). Brachiopods …

Mollusks have been diverse and abundant animals since earliest Cambrian time (about 545 million years ago = mya), and predate the appearance of trilobites in the fossil record.

Description: Students practice their skills at estimating and measuring lengths by measuring fossils.

Corals are major components of many living and fossil reefs ranging in age from Ordovician to the present. Justly famous is the Great Barrier Reef, that extends for over 1800 km (1200 miles) along …

Our History, Our Future Since 1908, the Paleontological Society has been committed to the global advancement of invertebrate and vertebrate paleontology, micropaleontology, and paleobotany. Our …

Outreach activities can take many forms, from a formal presentation in an elementary school classroom, to a show-and-tell with a Girl Scout troop, a fossil identification day for the general public, or a …

2024 Paleontological Society Short Course - From the earth to the repository and beyond: fossil collecting and collections issues at every level 2023 Paleontological Society Short Course - Diversity, …