PALEONTOLOGY QUIZ

are known from specimens with fine rows of bony scales, a simple slit-like mouth, and paired eyes, and a reversed heterocercal tail

• Anaspids

• Thelodonts

• Cephalapids

• Pteraspids

chordates with a well-defined head region, including a definite brain at the front end of the nerve cord and cranial nerves connected to well-defined sense organs (eyes, nose, ears).

• Conodonts

• Agnatha

• Craniates

• Thelodonts

refers to the flexible rod of cartilage, the notochord, along the back that serves for support

• chordates

• vertebrates

• graptolites

• cephalopods

one of the best index fossils for the early paleozoic

• tetrapods

• dipnoans

• ammonoids

• graptolites

Is the act or process of drying.

• Desiccation

• Sense organs

• Lack of buoyancy

• Respiration

The discovery that birds evolved from small carnivorous dinosaurs of the Late Jurassic was made possible by recently discovered fossils from China, South America and other countries

• FALSE

• TRUE

Found in most primitive ammoniates and in advanced aquatic Mesosaurs. No temporal fenestrae; solid skull roof.

• Synapsids

• Anapsids

• Euryapsids

• Diapsids

the study of fossil plants.

• botany

• biology

• paleobotany

• paleobiology

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The largest group of advanced teleosts including about 15,000 living species in 300 families.

• Atherinomorphs

• Percomorphs

• Acanthomorphs

• Atherinomorus

popularly refferes to as the "bony fish", is a diverse taxonomic group of fish that have skeletons primarily composed of bone tissue, as supposed to cartilage.

• Osteichthyans

• Teleosts

• Ostiechthyans

• Ostracoderms