https://padlet.com/304376/5sujio625ru7 Made with wonder en-us 2018-01-23 17:34:16 UTC 2025-11-04 07:20:08 UTC hello@padlet.com 304376 https://padlet.com/304376/5sujio625ru7/wish/223902857 A coprolite is fossilized feces. Coprolites are classified as trace fossils as opposed to body fossils, as they give evidence for the animal's behaviour (in this case, diet) rather than morphology. The name is derived from the Greek words κόπρος (kopros, meaning "dung") and λίθος (lithos, meaning "stone").



]]> 2018-01-23 17:35:40 UTC https://padlet.com/304376/5sujio625ru7/wish/223902857 304376 https://padlet.com/304376/5sujio625ru7/wish/223908510 Organisms buried in sediment may decay or dissolve away leaving a cavity or mold. If the space is subsequently filled with sediment, an external castcan be made. Molds and casts are three dimensional and preserve the surface contours of the organism.


]]> 2018-01-23 17:44:57 UTC https://padlet.com/304376/5sujio625ru7/wish/223908510 304376 https://padlet.com/304376/5sujio625ru7/wish/223913014 In geology, petrifaction or petrification is the process by which organic material becomes a fossil through the replacement of the original material and the filling of the original pore spaces with minerals.]]> 2018-01-23 17:52:49 UTC https://padlet.com/304376/5sujio625ru7/wish/223913014 304376 https://padlet.com/304376/5sujio625ru7/wish/223914411 A fossil trackway is a type of trace fossil, a trackway made by an organism. Many fossil trackways were made by dinosaurs, early tetrapods, and other quadrupeds and bipeds on land. Marine organisms also made many ancient trackways (such as the trails of trilobites and eurypterids like Hibbertopterus).]]> 2018-01-23 17:54:46 UTC https://padlet.com/304376/5sujio625ru7/wish/223914411 304376 https://padlet.com/304376/5sujio625ru7/wish/223915368 A true form fossil is a fossil of the whole/entire body of the organism, like an actual animal or animal part. True form fossilsare formed when the animals soft tissues or hard parts did not decay over the years.]]> 2018-01-23 17:56:33 UTC https://padlet.com/304376/5sujio625ru7/wish/223915368 304376 https://padlet.com/304376/5sujio625ru7/wish/223917264 Uniformitarianism is defined in the authoritative Glossary of Geology as "the fundamental principle or doctrine that geologic processes and natural laws now operating to modify the Earth's crust have acted in the same regular manner and with essentially the same intensity throughout geologic time, and that past]]> 2018-01-23 17:59:59 UTC https://padlet.com/304376/5sujio625ru7/wish/223917264 304376 https://padlet.com/304376/5sujio625ru7/wish/223918920 2018-01-23 18:02:58 UTC https://padlet.com/304376/5sujio625ru7/wish/223918920 304376 https://padlet.com/304376/5sujio625ru7/wish/223919993 he creation of a cast or mold is a common form of indirect preservation. Most fossils do not contain actual body parts but are impressions, molds or casts of the original organism. Essentially, a mold fossil forms when the organic matter of the organism decomposes and leaves a cavity, or mold. Casts form ...]]> 2018-01-23 18:05:04 UTC https://padlet.com/304376/5sujio625ru7/wish/223919993 304376 https://padlet.com/304376/5sujio625ru7/wish/223920540 A cast is a solid copy of the shape of an organism, the exact opposite of a mold.Petrified actually means, “turned into stone”. To form a petrified fossil, the organism is covered with sediment and then water rich with dissolved minerals covers that sediment]]> 2018-01-23 18:06:02 UTC https://padlet.com/304376/5sujio625ru7/wish/223920540 304376 https://padlet.com/304376/5sujio625ru7/wish/223921710 A fossil trackway is a type of trace fossil, a trackway made by an organism. Many fossil trackways were made by dinosaurs, earlytetrapods, and other quadrupeds and bipeds on land. Marine organisms also made many ancient trackways (such as the trails of trilobites and eurypterids like Hibbertopterus).]]> 2018-01-23 18:07:01 UTC https://padlet.com/304376/5sujio625ru7/wish/223921710 304376 https://padlet.com/304376/5sujio625ru7/wish/223922186 A coprolite is fossilized feces. Coprolites are classified as trace fossils as opposed to body fossils, as they give evidence for the animal's behaviour (in this case, diet) rather than morphology. The name is derived from the Greek words κόπρος (kopros, meaning "dung") and λίθος (lithos, meaning "stone"). They were first ...]]> 2018-01-23 18:07:51 UTC https://padlet.com/304376/5sujio625ru7/wish/223922186 304376 https://padlet.com/304376/5sujio625ru7/wish/223922706 2018-01-23 18:08:49 UTC https://padlet.com/304376/5sujio625ru7/wish/223922706