Using fossils & the fossil record

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Define 'extant'?
organisms that are still alive today
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Define 'extinct'?
organisms that are no longer alive today
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What is a death assemblage?
collection of fossils found in different place/position that they lived in.
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what is a life assemblage?
collection of organisms found in the same place/position in which they lived.
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What are the different types of organisms that lived in the water column?
Benthonic & Pelagic
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What different Pelagic organisms are there?
- nectonic (swimmer) -planktonic (floater)
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What different types of Benthonic organisms are there?
-epifaunal (burrrower) - infaunal (crawler)
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What is a 'zone fossil'?
Fossils used to date rocks
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What do zone fossils need to have/be?
-easily identifiable -geographically widespread -fast evolutionary change
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what is a derived fossil?
an old fossil preserved with younger forms.
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