Please complete the Fossil Lab Part 1 on Taxonomy, Stromatolites, Protists, Spon

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Please complete the Fossil Lab Part 1 on Taxonomy, Stromatolites, Protists, Sponges, Corals, and Bryozoans. Next week we will be looking at Brachiopods, Mollusks, Arthropods, and Echinoderms.
Lab Videos at the bottom of this page.
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In this lab, there are questions that you can answer from reading the lab text. There are a few questions that ask you to look at a microscope slide or a fossil specimen(s). I used my Leica EZ4D binocular microscope to take some photos of fossil specimens. The following pics go with the lab activities.
Activity 1.2: Kingdom Protista
Questions 2: Slide picture of diatoms. Sketch three diatoms and identify using Figure 4 from the lab.
Diatoms
Radiolarians
Questions 4: Slide of fossil foraminifera. (a) Sketch any three and label the aperture, suture, and chamber. (b) Determine the generic name of the three forams using Figure 6 from the lab.
Radiolaria
Question 3: Slide of radiolaria. Sketch two different genera and identify each.
Activity 1.4: Kingdom Animalia, Phylum Cnidaria
Question 4: Sketch of tabulate, rugose, and scleractinia corals
tabulate01.jpg rugose01.jpg scleractinian01.jpg
Activity 1.5: Kingdom Animalia, Phylum Ectoprocta – Bryozoans
Question 1: Identify the three following fossil bryozoans using Figure 27. Ketch and name each specimen and note the position of the zooecium on each drawing by an arrow.

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