Fossils B/C

[Unome]

Do You guys know what would be a few good resources for this event; I've been using the internet for research and can't find enough info for most of the fossils. What books do you recommend?

Field guides are good for moderately detailed information for this event (compared to the internet).

[jss229438]

Do You guys know what would be a few good resources for this event; I've been using the internet for research and can't find enough info for most of the fossils. What books do you recommend?

Field guides are good for moderately detailed information for this event (compared to the internet).

Thanks for the advice .


Also do they want us to have info on the phylums that the numbered taxons belong to.
For ex; ill study 1) order fusulinida and also research the phylum foraminifera since that order falls under it. Or do they just want us to study the number taxa ONLY?

[jss229438]

For 'Adaptations and morphologic features of major fossils groups' is there an official major fossils groups list? Or is it just all the fossils off of the science olympiad fossils list?

[azuritemalachite]

Do You guys know what would be a few good resources for this event; I've been using the internet for research and can't find enough info for most of the fossils. What books do you recommend?

Field guides are good for moderately detailed information for this event (compared to the internet).

Thanks for the advice .


Also do they want us to have info on the phylums that the numbered taxons belong to.
For ex; ill study 1) order fusulinida and also research the phylum foraminifera since that order falls under it. Or do they just want us to study the number taxa ONLY?

http://www.paleoportal.org/ You should probably have general info of a phylum/class and then have the detailed stuff for the genus/order.

[isalva]

I would recommend buying both major field guides, as the each have roughly 50% of the orders with limited overlap. I used Audubon heavily for my notes although I compete with a smithsonian

[Magikarpmaster629]

Are there textbooks I can get for fossils?

[adl]

Hello!
I am new to fossils, and I am getting a late start with this topic. I have just started tabbing a book- the Smithsonian field guide, but I am not even halfway through the list and I realize that there are at least 15 items on the list not in this book! Should I continue using this book, and make pages for the fossils that are missed to put in my binder? Or switch to the Audubon guide, which I am also using to study out of.

Also, as I am just starting my studying, does anybody have any tips on how to proceed? Any help would be much appreciated!
Thanks in advance

[boomvroomshroom]

And also, I was just talking to someone who got another of their field guides actually three-hole punched and put it inside their binder, so they could bring in two. Is this even legal, and where do I get a three-hole puncher that can do that?

I think I've heard that people used to do that, and as far as I know, it's legal (although you should check with each individual proctor). As for a hole puncher that can do that... the internet is silent.

Yes, technically it's legal, as the rules state that the binder may have information from any source.
However (as you said), it is probably hard to put it into the binder, and even then, it probably isn't that great of an idea... It could work, though!

Theoretically you could just use a hammer and nail and pray you don't take out your own finger in the process

[Celestite]

Hello!
I am new to fossils, and I am getting a late start with this topic. I have just started tabbing a book- the Smithsonian field guide, but I am not even halfway through the list and I realize that there are at least 15 items on the list not in this book! Should I continue using this book, and make pages for the fossils that are missed to put in my binder? Or switch to the Audubon guide, which I am also using to study out of.

Also, as I am just starting my studying, does anybody have any tips on how to proceed? Any help would be much appreciated!
Thanks in advance

Yup I'd just suggest simply making information pages on the missing fossils and adding them to the binder. I did this with Forestry a couple of years back, and it worked well. I think the Smithsonian is better organized than the Audubon, and so this way would work better than switching.

[jcreeps27]

Does anyone know how to distinguish the leaves of a Metasequoia and Pteridophyta? I've found that a lot of images online are extremely similar. I know that the former is a tree and the later is just a fern, but nonetheless their leaves look almost identical, and given only the leaves, I wouldn't be able to distinguish the two right now. Any advice would be much appreciated.