By-Caitlin Tencate, Maggie Hermanson and Kelley

Shomaker

Background InformationFossils - literally "having been dug up" are the preserved

remains or traces of animals, plants, and other organisms from the remote past.

Fossils are used to : 1. Reconstruct what the earth was like in the distant past 2. To show how life has changed through time 3. To correlate rock from one area to another to aid in searching

for fossil fuels and minerals.

In Ohio, fossils can be found at: Found in Fossil Park Sylvania Caesar Creek Emergency Spillway Hueston Woods State Park A few other popular Cincinnati and Dayton locations.

Ordovician time period

Coral a.k.a.

Gummy Worms

Corals :•Simple animals that conceal skeletons made of

calcium carbonate. • Corals can be either colonial or solitary.

• Corals live attached to the seafloor and feed by trapping small animals with their tentacles.

Bryozoans aka

Gummy Bears

Bryozoans:•“Moss animals” are aquatic organisms that build stony

skeletons of calcium carbonate. •Fossils found in rocks beginning in the Early Ordovician as a part

of Ordovician radiation.

Sour Gummy Worms aka

CephalopodsCephalopods

• Cephalopods means “head foot”•Fossil cephalopods were important parts of the

marine food web

Gummy Cherries aka

Brachiopods

Brachiopods• Marine animals who are filter feeders who collect food particles. •Fossil shells from animals that lived in ancient seas. •Kentucky’s state fossil

Gummy Tarantula aka

Clams

Clams•Called bivalves because their shell is composed of two valves. •Found in marine and freshwater environments.•Filter feeder

Sour Lightning Bugs aka Trilobites

Trilobites or Isotelus:•Trilobite means “three-lobed creature”•Marine organism, invertebrate creature that has hard outer shell or skeleton. •Ohio’s state fossil

•Between 430 and 480 million years ago an ocean covered much of what is now Ohio.

http://www.dinosaursrock.com/DigFossilsCoral.jpg

http://www.thecephalopodpage.org/FosCephs.php

http://www.educationalfossils.com/educational-fossils/Cephalopod-geisenoceras/geisenoceras-lrg.jpg

http://www.uky.edu/KGS/education/fossils.pdf