Fossils B/C

[lllazar]

Was there anything that anyone encountered on their test that kind of threw them off or wasn't on the rules??? Just wondering...

I had famous paleontologists which completely threw me off. The only one I knew was the guy who came up with some form or another of absolute dating... or maybe it was relative dating? His name seems to escape me right now

That seems interesting, ill look into famous paleontologists...

I havent gotten any questions that REALLY through me for a loop....maybe at state?

[Horatio11]

Is Annularia just the foliage of Calamites? If so, why are they listed separately on the list? Thanks in advance for your help!

We had a long discussion about this last year. Yes, they are obsolete taxa. No, I don't know why. More or less. Calamites refers to the bark, Annularia to the foliage.

That is very weird. Thanks for your help I will keep that in mind!

[gneissisnice]

Was there anything that anyone encountered on their test that kind of threw them off or wasn't on the rules??? Just wondering...

I had famous paleontologists which completely threw me off. The only one I knew was the guy who came up with some form or another of absolute dating... or maybe it was relative dating? His name seems to escape me right now

The only famous geologist I can think of is Wegener, the guy who came up with the theory of plate tectonics. Maybe Stephen Gould too, he was a big proponent of punctuated equilibrium, and did some stuff with the fossil record.

[amerikestrel]

What types of things do you need to know for Chondrichthyans? It seems to me like a rather broad category, since it includes sharks, rays, skates, chimaera, etc. And they aren't even extinct, so do you need to study their life history? Or just the fossils?

[courage7856]

What types of things do you need to know for Chondrichthyans? It seems to me like a rather broad category, since it includes sharks, rays, skates, chimaera, etc. And they aren't even extinct, so do you need to study their life history? Or just the fossils?

I had a page with the different types of fish, pictures, and a small explanation of each. I really haven't ever seen them on a test, but just have a basic idea to be sure. Know the differences between the orders.

[asianidiot]

What types of things do you need to know for Chondrichthyans? It seems to me like a rather broad category, since it includes sharks, rays, skates, chimaera, etc. And they aren't even extinct, so do you need to study their life history? Or just the fossils?

I had a page with the different types of fish, pictures, and a small explanation of each. I really haven't ever seen them on a test, but just have a basic idea to be sure. Know the differences between the orders.

really all you need to know is when they lived and that they have a cartilage skeleton, and mainly only sharks not much of the rest. rays, skates and the such r on the tests only very rarely

[soobsession]

The test at States was really easy this year... again. (Which is why I didn't tell my newbie partner so he would study )

The whole test was: name the "group" this specimen is in (not even Order or Class... "group") like "Cephalapoda or Gastropoda or something... there were both orders and families. Families was about as in depth as it got for classification. One of the questions asked what kingdom something was. It was Animalia. >.< There were also questions about environment, mode of preservation, mode of life (benthic, pelagic, and also filter-feeder, scavenger, etc.) and sedimentary rock (what kind of rock is this preserved it). There was no identification of genera. All questions were about everything said above (except for one "bonus question" on sultures)

There were 16-17 stations, two minutes each. We finished most stations within the first 30 seconds. It ended really early too.

[asianidiot]

wow b division states seems even easier than C division regionals

[courage7856]

The test at States was really easy this year... again. (Which is why I didn't tell my newbie partner so he would study )

The whole test was: name the "group" this specimen is in (not even Order or Class... "group") like "Cephalapoda or Gastropoda or something... there were both orders and families. Families was about as in depth as it got for classification. One of the questions asked what kingdom something was. It was Animalia. >.< There were also questions about environment, mode of preservation, mode of life (benthic, pelagic, and also filter-feeder, scavenger, etc.) and sedimentary rock (what kind of rock is this preserved it). There was no identification of genera. All questions were about everything said above (except for one "bonus question" on sultures)

There were 16-17 stations, two minutes each. We finished most stations within the first 30 seconds. It ended really early too.

Looks like my Regionals test wins on that. What is this speciman? Amber. I'm pretty sure the highest taxonomy I got was to a phylum. No genera. Some time periods. 1 mode of preservation. 1 graptolite. Extremely easy win.

[maggymay]

The Regional tests last year for Fossils were so different it wasn't even funny...one was pretty easy (like maybe middle-school level?), the other was definitely harder and much more in depth.