marine fossils
Ancient sea specimens
Marine fossils are the preserved remains or traces of organisms that lived in the ocean.
These include shells, coral, fish bones, and impressions of ancient sea creatures found in sedimentary rock.
Marine fossils discovered far inland or at high elevations indicate that seas once covered those areas: The limestone cliffs are full of marine fossils.
- ammonitesExtinct coiled-shell cephalopods
- trilobitesExtinct marine arthropods
- sea creaturesAnimals inhabiting oceans
- brachiopodsStalked marine filter feeders
- paleontologyStudy of ancient organisms
Burgess Shale · fossilization · stratigraphy · geology · coprolites · fossil record · deep time · extinct · Cambrian explosion · mosasaurs · prehistoric life · petrified · embedded · ocean · coral · seabed · sediment · ocean floor
- fossilsdinosaur bones, ammonite, amber, ammonites, fossil
- paleontologydinosaurs, fossil, paleontology, fossil record, dinosaur bones
- Early Jurassicichthyosaurs, ammonites, Dilophosaurus, early mammals
- fossilizationfossilization, petrification, mineralization, carbonization, cast
- trilobitestrilobites, glabella, thorax, exoskeleton, compound eyes
- geologybedrock, fault lines, faults, rock, basalt