Now it's your turn to take on the role of a paleontologist, or a scientist who studies fossils. You will try to combine information about rock layers and their unique fossils from several different areas. You will use this information to create a sequence that lists all the rock layers from oldest to youngest. For each region, you are given only a few rock layers with their fossils. If two rock layers from two different regions have the same fossils, this means that the rock layers that contain the fossils are the same age. In the space provided, list all the fossils, by name, from oldest to youngest. Remember, older fossils are in rock layers below younger fossils. Three-toed horse Ostracod Saber-toothed cat Three-toed horse Miacis Saber-toothed cat Woolly mammoth Ostracod Three-toed horse Saber-toothed cat Youngest Miacis Creodont Coral Woolly mammoth Ostracod Oldest

Now it's your turn to take on the role of a paleontologist, or a scientist who studies fossils. You will try to combine information about rock layers and their unique fossils from several different areas. You will use this information to create a sequence that lists all the rock layers from oldest to youngest. For each region, you are given only a few rock layers with their fossils. If two rock layers from two different regions have the same fossils, this means that the rock layers that contain the fossils are the same age. In the space provided, list all the fossils, by name, from oldest to youngest. Remember, older fossils are in rock layers below younger fossils. Three-toed horse Ostracod Saber-toothed cat Three-toed horse Miacis Saber-toothed cat Woolly mammoth Ostracod Three-toed horse Saber-toothed cat Youngest Miacis Creodont Coral Woolly mammoth Ostracod Oldest

Biology Today and Tomorrow without Physiology (MindTap Course List)

5th Edition

ISBN:9781305117396

Author:Cecie Starr, Christine Evers, Lisa Starr

Publisher:Cecie Starr, Christine Evers, Lisa Starr

Chapter11: Evidence Of Evolution

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