Mr Lawyer field assignment

1. COREYDAVISFIELD ASSIGNMENTFOSSIL LOCATION

2. AMMONITE These creatures lived in the seas between 240 - 65 million years ago, They became extinct along with the dinosaurs. The name 'ammonite' originates from the Greek Ram-horned god called Ammon.

3. AMMONITE This ammonite was found rite in the Saint Louis Area along the Mississippi River

4. BRACHIOPOD Brachiopod are marine animals that are rare in today times ,but in Paleozoic Era they dominated the sea floors There are about 300 living species of brachiopods. They around 250 million years ago Brachiopod have two shells not in some cases one shell is bigger than the other Brachiopods are filtered animals they eat upon microscopic organisms and bits of organic matter.

5. BRACHIOPOD This was found in the caverns in Saint Louis This fossil contains many kinds of Brachiopod

6. Archimedes They are about 324 million years old and were found in Crawford County, Indiana. Archimedes are screw like creatures Archimedes are a type Bryozoan

7. ARCHIMEDES This was found in the Missouri area at a location called Goose Creek

8. Bryozoans They are know as moss animals There are about 5000 species Some bryozoans are marine and some are freshwater meaning the live in river ,lakes, or oceans They came around during the Ordovician Period

9. BRYOZOANS This fossils was found in theMissouri River

10. Trilobite The name means three lobes Trilobites are a group of extinct marine arthropods They are about 526 million years They were around about the Early Cambrian period They shaped like a rollepolle Belong to a group of orthopoids

11. TRILOBITE This fossil was found rite in the Kansas City Missouri

12. Bivalve Clams and their relatives (oysters, scallops, and mussels) are often called bivalves Bivalve were around in the early Cambrain Period They are about 510 million years old Modern Bivalve live in freshwater and marine waters 30,000 spieces

13. BIvalve This was found in Jefferson County Missouri

14. Reference The Geologist at the Saint Louis Missouri. Science Center www.ucmp.berkeley.edu Unklesbay, A.G. The Common Fossils of Missouri . revised edition. 1. St. Louis Mo: University of Missouri Press, 1995. 34-45. Print.