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Can we find fossils in the ocean?
Only the record of microscopic deep marine life is buried in the deep oceans. Most of our fossils are of things that lived in shallow seas, river deltas and coastal plains and those fossils are mostly all on land. Have there been any attempts to find fossils under the sea? Yes.
What fossils have been found in the ocean?
Fantastic fossils
- Ammonites. Ammonites are related to the squids and octopuses you can see today, but they’re all extinct – they died out at the same time as dinosaurs.
- Trilobites.
- Bivalves.
- Brachiopods.
- Sponges.
- Sea urchins.
- Shark teeth.
- Bones of dinosaurs and other reptiles.
Could there still be dinosaurs in the ocean?
There are no known aquatic dinosaurs. It would not be impossible for dinosaurs to evolve to live in water (though being air breathers they would not be able to live permanently deep underwater) just as whales evolved from mammals.
What is the deepest fossil ever found?
Plateosaurus
The Plateosaurus at the Snorre offshore field had a hollow grave. The fossil, which was found 2256 metres below the seabed, represents the world’s deepest dinosaur finding.
Are there still undiscovered fossils?
Not for a long, long time. There are currently about 3,000 so-called “full” dinosaur specimens—complete or near-complete skeletons or just a complete or near-complete skull—in museums around the United States. Scientists estimate that there are at least triple this number as yet uncollected around the globe.
Why are fossils found near water?
The plants and animals that die in or near water can be quickly covered by sediments, increasing their chance of becoming a fossil. This is more common in oceans than swamps, and in swamps than rivers, so the fossil record is an incomplete picture of the history of life on Earth, heavily weighted toward marine life.
Could there be fossils on Antarctica?
Beautiful plant fossils are found preserved in abundance within sandstones and mudstones of the Antarctic Peninsula, most notably the Cretaceous (145–65 million years ago) rocks from Alexander Island and the South Shetland Islands. Fossil ginkgoes and the Southern Hemisphere cycads are also present.
Do oil rigs find dinosaur bones?
While dinosaur fossils have been found when retrieving rock cores to investigate the subsurface, this is pure luck, and unrelated to the presence of an oilfield nearby. Any such fossils would be crushed by the drill-bit during normal drilling operations, like the one depicted in this movie.
How did fossils of sea creatures get to the surface?
How fossils of sea creatures managed to go from being under the ocean to thousands of feet above sea level and hundreds of miles from the nearest ocean is a great question of geology. Shells and exoskeletons fossilize relatively easily since they are heavy, sink quickly to the ocean floor, and can be easily buried by other sediments.
How do shells and exoskeletons fossilize?
Shells and exoskeletons fossilize relatively easily since they are heavy, sink quickly to the ocean floor, and can be easily buried by other sediments. Over time these sediments harden into rock. A fine example of this is the trilobite fossils commonly found in shale deposits all over the world.
How did the fossils of marine life rise to their present heights?
Over time that land has uplifted. Thus the fossils of marine life that once lived there have risen to their current high elevations. This is a better answer than a global flood for several reasons: There are also fossilized tracks and burrows of marine life found near the fossils of the marine life.
What fossils were found in the Paleozoic era?
The Paleozoic Era (542 to 251 million years ago) Fish diversified and marine organisms were very abundant during the Paleozoic. Common Paleozoic fossils include trilobites and cephalopods such as squid, as well as insects and ferns.
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