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		BBC News \| SCI/TECH \| Fossil fish in Chinese tale ^Votes:0 low graphics version \| feedback \| help You are in: Sci/Tech Front Page World UK UK Politics Business Sci/Tech Health Education Entertainment Talking Point In Depth AudioVideo Wednesday, 28 February, 2001, 23:41 GMT Fossil fish in Chinese tale Fossil fish: Implications for the evolution of land vertebrates By BBC News Online's Helen Briggs Ancestors of the first fish that crawled on to land, giving rise to back-boned land animals and eventually humans, probably arose in China, scientists said on Wednesday. The discovery of a 400-million-year-old fossil fish at a site in what is now southern China throws light on a fishy "garden of Eden", where creatures first evolved lobe-like fins that went on to form limbs. The fossil fish, which lived near what was once an isolated continent, now Yunnan Read More Go to Site


		WMNH - Cretaceous Fish Fossils of Kansas ^Votes:0 Cretaceous Fish Fossils of Kansas There's only one place to get a 3-D cast of the Cretaceous fish Xiphactinus . Triebold Paleontology digs the fish bones from the Niobrara Chalk of Kansas and prepares them into some of the worlds most impressive fish fossils. The bones are first removed from the ground in plaster jackets. In the lab, the bones are removed from matrix one by one. It involves very meticulous work like a giant puzzle. The individual bones are cleaned and prepared and the assembly of the skeleton begins. There are several dozen bones in the skull alone. When complete, the mounted specimen almost comes back to life. Scientific Name: Xiphactinus Phylum: Chordata Class: Osteichthyes Niobrara Chalk Casts are available from the Worldwide Museum Giftshop . Museum and collector inqui Read More Go to Site

		ASU Research E-Magazine: Fossil Fish & Dinosaur Eggs ^Votes:0 A magazine of scholarship and creative activity at Arizona State University Go to: Home Page Printer-friendly Version Physical Science : Geology Life Science : Paleontology Related ASU Research Stories The Better to Eat You With (sidebar) Related ASU Web Sites Robert S. Dietz Geology Museum Southwest Center for Education and the Natural Environment Publication Date: Spring/Summer 1994 John Babiarzs customers know him as the owner of Greenfield Citrus Nursery in Mesa. Most have no idea that he is an accomplished fossil hunter and amateur vertebrate paleontologist. The 11-foot-long bulldog fish that died in the seas flowing across South Dakota about 70 million years ago apparently didnt starve to death. The bulldog fish still has several small pieces of backbone from its last mea Read More Go to Site

		BGS Education - Fish Page 1 ^Votes:0 onMouseOut="restoreImg()" onMouseOver="swapImg('next','','../images/next1.jpg',1)"> onMouseOut="restoreImg()" onMouseOver="swapImg('prev','','../images/prev1.jpg',1)"> Naso , a teleost that lived during the Palaeogene. The jawless fish Loganellia. These features distinguish them from amphibians and reptiles, which have lungs and limbs rather than gills and fins; and whales and dolphins which are warm blooded mammals with lungs. Since the Late Cambrian, fish have evolved into thousands of species and today they form over half of all living vertebrates. Fish are cold blooded creatures that inhabit all kinds of water bodies from small ponds to the deep sea. They are vertebrates, with a back-bone made of cartilage or bone and a braincase protecting the brain; they swim using fins; and take oxy Read More Go to Site

		Canada Fossils: Fossil Fish ^Votes:0 ammonite feng shui mammoth tusks mammoth ivory dinosaurs fossil fish small fossils faq contact us Most of our fossil fish come from the Green River formation in Wyoming. Fossil Lake has a reputation of supplying the best quality fish fossils in the world. The fish found here are about 50 million years old from the period called the Eocene. Found on a light coloured limestone shale, the darker fish fossils boast excellent detail of bone and fin structures. With sizes ranging from three inches to three feet, and prices from ten dollars to ten thousand dollars, a perfect specimen can be found for almost everyone. Questions or comments? ©1998-2003 Canada Fossils Ltd, All rights reserved Read More Go to Site

		Charlotte, The Vermont Whale ^Votes:0 Charlotte, The Vermont Whale An Electronic Museum Founded on this website December, 1993 An Introduction To The Story Directory of Exhibits About The Project Directed by Jeff Howe Director of Exhibits and Programs North Museum of Natural History and Science Lancaster, PA Produced by Wesley Alan Wright Media Specialist, Academic Computing Services, University of Vermont Brought to you through the courtesy of Computing and Information Technology, University of Vermont. Copyright © 1996 The University of Vermont and others. All rights reserved. Send questions, comments, changes, and additions to Wesley.Wright@uvm.edu and j_howe@admin.fandm.edu This page last updated June 13, 2000 Read More Go to Site

		DINOFISH.com - COELACANTH: THE FISH OUT OF TIME ^Votes:0 DINOFISH.com - COELACANTH: THE FISH OUT OF TIME Viewing this page requires a browser capable of displaying frames. Please update your browser and come back! Read More Go to Site

		Fossil Fish Collection: The Geology Department at The Field Museum ^Votes:0 Fossil Fish Collection T he fossil fish collection is the first or second largest in North America, and one of the world's top four. It contains about thirty thousand specimen numbers, but because fossil fishes are frequently preserved in mass mortalities, the number of individuals in the collection is much higher. Specimen PF9668, for example, is a slab of limestone with over 200 nearly complete articulated skeletons. The Field Museum fossil fish collection contains representatives of over 250 families and well over 1,000 nominal species. The collection is worldwide in geographic scope and contains material from the Early Ordovician (500 million years before present) through the Pleistocene (1-2 thousand years old). The collection includes not only fish fossils from most of the major, wel Read More Go to Site

		Fossil Record of the Actinopterygii ^Votes:0 Actinopterygii : Fossil Record This fossil, Diplomystus from the Eocene of Wyoming, is a relative latecomer in the fossil history of ray-finned fish. The oldest ray-finned fish appeared in the Devonian ; by the late Paleozoic the actinopterygians were by far the dominant aquatic vertebrates. From the Carboniferous to the Triassic, the dominant ray-finned fishes belonged to a loose grouping known as the palaeoniscoids . Generally small fishes, palaeoniscoids bore scales covered by a shiny material known as ganoine. Palaeoniscoids were quite diverse, and many palaeoniscoids superficially resembled the bony fish of today, ranging from elongated eel-like forms to compressed forms resembling living angelfish. All palaeoniscoids were extinct by the end of the Mesozoic , leaving only a few distan Read More Go to Site

		Fossils of Barton-on-Sea ^Votes:0 Location: Barton-on-Sea is located on the South Coast of England, in the county of Hampshire, the nearest large town being Bournemouth. It is easily accessible using either the A337 through the New Forest or the A35 from Bournemouth. The main fossiliferous location is between Highcliffe and Barton-on-Sea itself and is best accessed from either the car park for Highcliffe castle or the car park at Barton. Background: Barton-on-Sea is the type-site for the Bartonian formation of the upper Eocene period and covers the period from about 44 to 37 mya. It was a marine environment, believed to be similar to that in southeast Asia today. In later stages it became more estuarine as the sea silted up leaving marshes and lagoons. The Barton formation is divided into a number of beds, lettered from A Read More Go to Site

		Large Sharks in the Western Interior Sea ^Votes:0 Cretoxyrhina mantelli - The Ginsu Shark and Squalicorax falcatus - The Crow Shark Large Sharks in the Western Interior Sea Copyright ? 1999-2007 by Mike Everhart - Last Modified: 08/14/2007 Copyright ? Doug Henderson; used with permission of Doug Henderson NEW - May 12, 2003 - Translated into French by Jean-Michel Benoit (Click on flag) The Portheus , now swimming for life, was the foci of the sharks that were coming to the attack from all directions. One would dive under the fish, and receive, for his pains, a stroke from his powerful tail that would put him out of commission; another would receive a thrust from the sword-like ray of the front fin. Undaunted, others hurried up like a pack of wolves on a wounded deer. Though many were wounded in the fray, our hero fish at last succum Read More Go to Site

		Mesozoic Fishes Redirect ^Votes:0 The Mesozoic Fishes site has moved to a new location. Please update your bookmarks. Your browser should automatically take you there in 3 seconds. If it doesn't, please go to the new site . Read More Go to Site

		Miocene Sharks Teeth of Calvert County ^Votes:0 Maryland Geological Survey Pamphlet Series Miocene Sharks Teeth of Calvert County contact: Dale Shelton ( dshelton@mgs.md.gov ) MGS Home \| Pamphlet Home \| Online Publications \| The List of Publications \| Publications Office \| The sharks teeth collected along the shore of the Chesapeake Bay between Chesapeake Beach and Calvert Cliffs in Calvert County are records of a far distant past when the climate, geography, and living creatures in this area were quite different from those of today. Back in the Miocene Epoch, about 17 million years ago, the sharks that bore these teeth lived in the warm, shallow sea that covered southern Maryland. Luxuriant growths of sea algae and succulent aquatic plants that flourished here provided abundant food for marine life. Among the vertebrate inhabitants wer Read More Go to Site

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		Nearctica - Paleontology - Other Invertebrate Groups ^Votes:0 Other Invertebrate Groups Special Segments Butterflies of North America Conifers of North America Eastern Birds List of N.A. Insects Home Eastern Wildflowers General Topics Natural History Ecology Family Environment Evolution Home Education Home Conservation Geophysics Paleontology Commercial Organizations ' Books about Fossils and Paleontology Porifera (Sponges) Cnidaria (Corals) Bryozoa Conodonts Conulariids Graptolites PORIFERA (Sponges) Sponges are globular, cylindrical, conical, or irregular in shape. The interior of a sponge may be hollow or filled with branching canals. Sponges are primarily marine and may be either solitary or colonial. The skeletal elements of sponges are called spicules, and they may be separate or joined. Fossil sponges are common in the fossil record from the C Read More Go to Site

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