ERTH2002 Week 6 Contact

ERTH2002 Prac 6 Survey of Invertebrate Diversity II – Fossil Records

 

Phylum Arthropoda

Superclass Trilobitomorpha

 


Underside of Olenoides showing legs
Sample 1 Reconstructions of the Cambrian trilobite Olenoides


Sample 2 Cast of Olenoides (Cambrian)

Sample 3 Cast of Ogygopsis (Cambrian)
Sample 4 Agnostus (a blind trilobite) (Cambrian)

Sample 5 Devonian trilobite Phacops

Large Devonian Phacopsid trilobite from Morocco
Partly rolled phacopsid trilobite
Sample 6 rolled up trilobite
Rolled up trilobite (Calymene).
Sample 7 assemblage of large trilobites (Xistridura) from the Cambrian

Superclass Crustacea

Sample 8 Crustaceans
Fossil crab from Miocene of New Zealand
Sample 9a crustacean Thalassina anomala
Sample 9b crustacean (Jurassic, Germany)

Phylum Echinodermata

Class Crinoidea



Sample 10a modern  stalkless crinoids


Sample 10b modern stalked crinoid (from the Coral Sea)

Sample 11 Cast of stalked crinoids


Sample 12 Cast of stalked crinoid

Sample 13 basal cup of the crinoid Eucalyptocrinities from the Devonian of Australia

Sample 14a crinoid stems

Sample 14b crinoid stems

Sample 15 crinoid stems (left) and Sample 16 crinoid ossicles (right) in limestone

Crinoidal limestone with geopetal structure in the large crinoid stem at centre

Class Blastoidea

 

Sample 17 blastoid calyce

 

Class Asteroidea


Modern starfishes


Sample 18 fossil starfish

Class Echinoidea

 


Modern examples of echinoids (sea urchins and sand dollars)

Sample 19  echinoids

Sample 20 echinoid

 

Phylum Hemichordata

Class: Graptolithina


Sample 21


Sample 22


Sample 23


Sample 24


Sample 25

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