Prehistory at The Field Museum

Find the stromatolites on display. When did stromatolites evolve?

• Cambrian Period

• 1700s

• Precambrian

Find the Ediacaran fossils. List a few below. Which is your favorite? Why?

Find the trilobite fossils! Share a fact you learned about them below. Take a picture of your favorite species.

Find the Cambrian underwater scene. Can you spots these creatures?

• Pikaia

• Hallucigenia

• Wiwaxia

• Opabinia

• Marella

In the Cambrian underwater scene, the Anomalocaris is eating or catching...

• A worm

• A trilobite

• A fern like creature

Many Cambrian fossils have been found in what famous location?

Find the display about the earliest plants. What fossils specimens does the Field Museum have? Feel free to add photos of the ones you find most interesting.

Find some fossils of early fish. List 3 below.

Find the replica of Tiktaalik. Tiktaalik, Ichthyostega, and Acanthostega are similar because...

• They are all early reptiles.

• They are all bony fish.

• They are fishibians and examples of transitional fossils.

Early amphibians like Eryops and Diplocaulus were found in what Period?