Geol G308 Paleontology and Geology of Indiana Name: _____________________________________ Lab Plants and Vertebrates Assignment: Work with your fossil sites to produce classification of the taxa at the level covered in our labs. This classification will be due by Friday next week. Plants Algae Cycloscrinites dactyloides, Silurian, Hopkingon Fm., Jones Co. Iowa Tracheophyta (vascular plants) Spores, New Albany Shale Sporing bodies, Dugger Fm. Department of Geological Sciences | P. David Polly 1 Lycophyta (club mosses) Lepidodendron (trunks), Stigmaria (roots) Sigillaria Sphenophyta (horsetails) Calamites, Mansfield SS (stems) Annularia, Dugger Fm. (leaves) Calamostachys, Lower Black Coal (cones) Department of Geological Sciences | P. David Polly 2 Pteridophyta (ferns) Pecopteris, Indiana Pecopteris (fertile), Indiana Neuropteris, Indiana Pteridospermophyta (seed ferns) Alethopteris serlii, Posttsville Series (Pennsylvanian) St. Clair Pennsylvania Alethopteris ambigua, Pennsylvanian of Indiana University Sphenopteris fern foliage, Lower Black Coal Progymnosperms Archaeopteris, Devonian, Hancock, NY Department of Geological Sciences | P. David Polly 3 Pinopsida (conifers) Walchia, Abo Fm. New Mexico (Permian) Department of Geological Sciences | P. David Polly 4 Plant Phylogeny (from Doyle, JA. 1998. Phylogeny of vascular plants. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 29: 567-599). Department of Geological Sciences | P. David Polly 5 Vertebrates Conodonta Jaw elements of lamprey-like early vertebrates Astrapsids, Heterostraci Vert fragments in sandstone, mid Ordovician, Harding Sandstone Department of Geological Sciences | P. David Polly 6 Chondricthyes (Sharks, rays, and chimaeras) Misc shark teeth (x4) Valmeyeran Elasmobranchii (sharks), Xenacanthida Xenacanth shark, Cannel Coal, Knox County, IL Holocephali, Cochliodontidae (chimaeras) Deltodus Pavement shark, Salem Ls. Deltodus Pavement shark, Harrodsburg Ls. Cascades Park. Deltodus Pavement shark, Gosport, IN. Department of Geological Sciences | P. David Polly 7 Osteichthyes (Bony Fish) Actinopterygia (Ray-finned fish), Palaeonisciformes Palaeoniscoid fish, Devonian, Old Red SS. Palaeoniscum friesenlebeni, Kupferschiefer Tetrapoda (limbed vertebrates) Paleosauropus, Late Mississippian ichnogenus (trackway) (from Colbert and Schaeffer) See also trackway from Crane Naval Base on 2nd Floor Department of Geological Sciences | P. David Polly 8 Early Vertebrate phylogeny: Cambrian through Devonian Department of Geological Sciences | P. David Polly 9 Jawed fishes (Gnathostomata), Silurian to Present Department of Geological Sciences | P. David Polly 10 Tetrapods, Devonian to recent from Coates MI, Ruta M, Friedman M. 2008. Ever since Owen: changing perspectives on the early evolution of tetrapods. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 39: 571-592. Department of Geological Sciences | P. David Polly 11 .