Eurypterus remipes is the New York State Fossil According to the New York State Library website, "Eurypterus Remipes, an extinct relative of the modern king crab and sea scorpion, was adopted as the State fossil in 1984. During the Silurian Period (over 400 million years ago), Eurypterus Remipes crawled along the bottom of the shallow, brackish sea that covered much of New York, extending from Buffalo to Schenectady and south to Poughkeepsie, roughly along the route of the New York Thruway."
Eurypterus (the name means "broad wings") fossils have been determined to have first appeared approximately 450 million years ago (the Late Ordovician period) and went extinct about 260 million years ago, just before the Permian extinction (in which 90% of life on Earth went extinct). Eurypterus remipes lived mostly in shallow water, and may have been on e of the first creatures to crawl up onto land. Eurypterus fossils have been found all over the world.
- Prehistoric Pittsford (NY): How did Eurypterus get it's name?
- Find more information at www.eurypterid.net
The centroceras is the ancestral family of the Trigonoceataceae and of the equivalent centroceratina extinct shelled cephalopods belonging to the Nautilida.
ReplyDeleteit range from the middle devonian to the lower permian . shells with compressed wholes and narrower than the dorsum. On the centroceras the flanks are divid by a ridge that runs along the middle.
hi my name is Prabudh Josi my email is PrabudhJosi@gmail.comThe fossil i picked is about the Mastadon. The Mastadon is a mammal. Mastadon is grouped with the beluga whale. The mammal (mastadon) fossil's was found in Boney Springs Central Missouri.The mastadon lived in cold harsh climates. Mastadon appeared around 16000-40000 years ago. It lived in the Mammut Period. It disappeared in 1859.
ReplyDeleteHello Mr. BARKAN and Mr. COUSINS this is LOREN COLLADO from the GREEN CLASS the date is NOVEMBER 11th and here are is my fossil information and sources:
ReplyDeleteTetragraptus:
‘Tetragraptus’ is a member of the species of extinct graptolites from the Middle Cambrian to the Early Ordovician period. Tetragraptus’ name comes from the fact that its body is of 4 ‘branches’ supported by a thin ‘filament’. The first sight of Tetragraptus was in Argentina in 1863. It has also been seen in areas, such as, Australia. Like most graptolites, Tetragraptus lived in a marine environment from 505 million years to 478 million years ago.
SOURCES:
“Tetragraptus." Encyclopedia Britannica. 2009. Encyclopedia Britannica Online. 11 Nov. 2009 http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/589011/Tetragraptus.
“Tetragraptus quadribrachiatus”. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 30 May 2009. 11 Nov 2009 http://data.gbif.org/occurrences/40913565
Sutton, Barry. “Other Fossils (USA and Worldwide)”. 11 November 2009.
http://www.lakeneosho.org/MoreFossils.html
Christopher Morrisett Red Class
ReplyDeletewhats good Mr.Barkan this is chritopher morrisett from the red class and here is my fossil information and source.
Phacops rana:
Phacops rana(the name means "a common frog) fossils have been found in the northeastern U.S.,southwestern Ontario,Canada,and in the Morocco,Africa. This fossil had first appeared approximately between 405 and 365 million years(the Middle Devonian Period) and extinct nearly 300 million years ago.Phacops rana lived in land lakes, surrounded by primitive plants,and they had the ability to crawl out of the water and onto the land for a short periods of time.
www.dcnr.state.pa.us/topogeo/collecting/state-fossil.aspx
www.absoluteastronomy.com/topic/
Farah Jules Red Class
ReplyDeleteMy fossil is Beluga Whale
The beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas) is a small white-toothed whale. They are normally found in shallow, coastal waters where their bodies are hardly covered. They look well adapted to both a cold ocean habitat and a warmer freshwater habitat. These whales can be found swimming surrounded by icebergs in the waters of the Arctic and subarctic, where water temperatures could be as low as 32° F (0° C). They live in the Arctic and subarctic regions of Russia, Greenland, and North America. Five different groups of beluga whales occur in the United States such as in Cook Inlet, Bristol Bay, Eastern Bering Sea, Eastern Chukchi Sea, and Beaufort Sea. Of these five, Cook Inlet is the most isolated. Beluga whales could have been isolated there for several thousand years. The period that the Beluga whales were in was the Quaternary period. They appeared 59 years ago. And though they are not extinct, beluga whales are close to it. Belugas have been greatly hunted on a daily basis for 200 years, beginning in the early 1700s and ending in the mid-1900s. Some populations were severely washed out by commercial hunting in the past and continue to be threatened or endangered to this day. We must stop this before Beluga whales are gone for good.
John G. Shedd
2001
Animal FAQs- Beluga Whales
http://iimaginestudio.com/SHEDD/HTML/ani_faqs_02.html
Shaniya Haughton Green Class November 12,2009
ReplyDeleteMucrospirifer is a genus of extinct brachiopod in the class Rhynchonellate and the Spiriferida. Brachiopod are a small phylum of benthic invertebrates.Brachiopod Mucrospirifer was found in the Widder Formation in Ontario,Canada.They lived in muddy marine sediments,and were attached to the sea floor viathe pedicle.The sometimes look like two seashells stuck together.Brachiopod Mucrospirifer lived during the Middle Devonian Period about 370 millions years ago.Mucrospirifer first appear 416 million years and lasted about 57 million years.
Shaniya Haughton Green Class November 12,2009
ReplyDeleteMucrospirifer is a genus of extinct brachiopod in the class Rhynchonellate and the Spiriferida. Brachiopod are a small phylum of benthic invertebrates.Brachiopod Mucrospirifer was found in the Widder Formation in Ontario,Canada.They lived in muddy marine sediments,and were attached to the sea floor viathe pedicle.The sometimes look like two seashells stuck together.Brachiopod Mucrospirifer lived during the Middle Devonian Period about 370 millions years ago.Mucrospirifer first appear 416 million years and lasted about 57 million years.
Source:-
http://www.fossilicous.com/BrachiopodMucrospirifer-pr-16525.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mucrospirifer
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/674802/Mucrospirifer
Hey Mr.Barkan, It's Brianna Bennett-Corbin from the red class. My fossil is the coelophysis.
ReplyDeleteCoelophysis stands for "hollow form." Its complete genus is a distant taxtonomic unit.Its species is C.bauri.It was found New Mexico.It lived around the early trassic period.It appearded around 215 mya.Most of the coelophysis lived in Arizona and New Mexico.It went extinct in the later trassic period.
sources:
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Coelophysis
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/nature-online/dino-directory/detail.dsml?Genus=Coelophysis&showTaxonomy=yes&identifier=coelo&&beginIndex=§ion=home
Nah-Jae' Hickman Red Class.....
ReplyDeleteThe Beluga whale's genus is, Delphinapterus, means which "whale without fins", and the species, is leucas, which means white.Beluga Whales like the icy cold water so they tend to be found in the Arctic and Sub-Artic water.The Beluga's can survive about anything and have been around for a while.They are still alive now but there numbers are scarce,jut like other whales, due to beaching and killing for their blubber.So the period where you can find them last is Quaternary and the time period when they first arrived was the Triassac.
mr barkan this is Nah-Jae' Hickman,,every time i try 2 post it it didnt appear
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