Fossil chart
This chart shows what types of fossil have been found in what period.
It also groups fossils together under marine water, brackish water, fresh water and land.
There is a section for plant fossils as well.
The *** symbol shows in which period the fossils have been found.
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Cambrian
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Ordovician
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Silurian
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Devonian
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Carboniferous
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Permium
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MARINE
WATER:
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Shellfish
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Trilobites, etc.
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Clams, scallops. oysters, etc.
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Dawn crinoids
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Sea anemones (& like).
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Sponges (& like).
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Sea lilies / feathered stars.
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Tube-shaped organisms.
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Brittle stars.
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Horseshoe crabs.
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Fungi
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Marine worms.
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Seed shrimps.
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Moss animals.
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Sea scorpions.
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Algae.
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Agnathan fish.
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Spiny sharks.
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Bony fish.
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Sharks.
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Armoured fish with jaws.
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Sea spiders.
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Amphibious creatures.
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Amphibious scorpions.
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BRACKISH
WATER
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Algae.
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Bacteria.
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FRESH
WATER:
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Shellfish.
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Agnathan fish.
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Millipedes.
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Spiny sharks.
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Amphibious creatures.
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Sharks.
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Bony fish.
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Armoured fish with jaws.
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Fungi.
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LAND:
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Springtail insects.
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Millipedes.
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Earwig-like.
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Amphibious creatures.
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Bristletails.
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Mites.
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Spider-like.
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Cockroaches.
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Crickets, grasshoppers, etc.
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Scorpions.
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Beetles.
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May flies & damsel-like flies.
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Dragon-like flies & huge dragon flies.
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Flying insects.
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Lice-like.
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Lizards.
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Mammal-like reptiles.
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LAND
PLANTS:
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Large plants thorn-like leaves.
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Fungi.
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Small branching plants with spores.
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Woody bushes with spores.
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Woody ferns.
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Small plants with spores.
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Leaved herb-like plants.
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Fern-like plants.
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Plants with underground rhizomes.
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Ferns.
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Scale trees.
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Creeping plants with scale leaves.
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Liverworts.
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Spike mosses.
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Mosses.
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Small branching leafless spore plants
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Spore headed small plants.
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Large strap-leaved trees.
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Pine trees.
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Trees.
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Quillwort, etc.
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Seed plants.
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Horsetail-like.
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For considerable more detail on what fossils are found in what strata see:
www.palaeos.com
www.biodiversity.org.uk/ibs/palaeo/benton/