FOSSIL ANALYSIS WORKSHEET

Record the presence of a fossil in your material by an X in the chart. Make certain that the X is placed in ONLY those time periods when the genus lived. You would not place a trilobite in the Pleistocene for example. After you have recorded all the data, analyze it and see what conclusions you can make regarding the general age of the deposit where the fossils came from and the type of environment the organisms lived in.

FOSSIL	TIME PERIODS
	Triassic	Jurassic	Cretaceous	Paleocene	Eocene	Oligocene	Miocene	Pliocene	Pleistocene (recent)
Cardium
Unio
Pecten
Asarte
Turritella
Polygyra
Vertigo
Natica
Arca

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Last updated on October 6, 2005

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