The document contains information about different types of fossils found including dinosaur footprints, coprolite, burrows, ammonite casts, plesiosaur bones and vertebrae, insects like mosquitoes and beetles preserved in amber, dinosaur feathers in amber, fossils of saber-tooth cats and other extinct animals, and mentions important fossil discoveries like Microraptor, Sinosauropteryx, and fossils found by Mary and Joseph Anning including Ichthyosaurus. The document also references Charles Darwin's observations of Galapagos finches and their relationship to his theory of evolution.

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3. Dinosaur footprint
Borings
Coprolite or fossil poo!
Burrows
Wikimedia

4. Cast
fills in
mould
once
ammonite
shell has
dissolved
away
Mould
forms
from
imprint of
ammonite
shell
©Copyright 2008 by Mike Viney

5. Plesiosaur

6. Soft sediment

7. Protected from
scavenging animals

8. Bones

9. Fossil
bone
s
Rock
Soft sediment

11. Plesiosaur vertebra
(backbone) fossil
www.charmouth.org

12. Wikimedia/Baltic-amber-beetle
Wikimedia/
Emmanuel
Boutet
Wikimedia
/Didier
Desouens
Mosquito
in amber
20 million
years old
Beetle in amber
50 million years old Tree
resin
Dinosaur feathers in amber
80 million years old
Science/AAAS

13. La Brae Tar Pits
Wikimedia/ Daniel Schwen
Sabre-tooth cat
Wikimedia/Wallace63

14. Lyuba
©Trustees of the Natural History Museum

15. ©Jim Robins/ University of Bristol
Microraptor
Sinosauropteryx
Wikimedia/Sam/Olai Ose /Skjaervoy
Hone DWE, Tischlinger H, Xu X, Zhang F (2010)
PloS One

16. Plesiosaurus
Mary and Joseph
Anning’s
Ichthyosaurus

17. The Father of Evolution
Galapagos
finches