EARTH SCIENCE
FOSSILS
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Question
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Marine species once lived on land.
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The area of Missouri was once underwater.
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The fossils had most likely been transported from a marine environment to Pennsylvania.
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Marine organisms have adapted to survive on land.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Mississippian Period – 359 to 325 million years ago During Mississippian time, Missouri was covered in a shallow sea, much like the area near the Bahamas today.
Detailed explanation-2: -During the early Paleozoic, Missouri was covered by a warm shallow sea that would come to be home to creatures like Archimedes, brachiopods, shelled cephalopods, conodonts, corals, crinoids, armored fishes, and trilobites.
Detailed explanation-3: -(The twelfth bone has since been reunited with the others.) On Nov. 22, 2021, Museum Curator Guy Darrough formally announced the discovery of an adult Parrosaurus missouriensis fossil at the Chronister site. Darrough, director of the dig site, said the fossil and its surrounding material weighed 2, 500 pounds.
Detailed explanation-4: -Bivalves. Bivalves are aquatic mollusks with shells usually made up of calcium. Blastoids. Blastoids were stemmed echinoderm invertebrate animals. Brachiopods. Brachiopods are a category of shelled, marine, invertebrate animals. Conulariid Jellyfish. Crinoid. Gastropods. Nautiloid. Starfish. More items