Most of this work is done by fossil preparators - experts in the tools and techniques needed to release specimens from the rock they’ve spent millions of years ... uses a microscope to help him see to ...

European sites, especially in England and Germany, also yield well-preserved crinoid specimens, often in association with other marine fossils from the same time period. However, be mindful ...

What kind(s) of organisms are fossilized here? 24. These are fossils of the same kind of organism, a crinoid. Crinoids are very delicate creatures with many fine structures (see picture). In one of ...

Fossil echinoderms are numerous, due in part to the fantastic preservation potential of the calcite plates that form their skeletons. They have been found in Phanerozoic marine sediments around the ...

Look carefully at the display specimens. Use your Critter Chart ... mass of organic material around these spicules. This fossil is essentially the mud that filled the depression formed by the dead ...