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106 Fossils

Cruisin’ the Fossil Freeway (Johnson Dracorex, 75
and Troll), 71 dung, fossilized, 36
Curie, Marie, 45
Curie, Pierre, 45 E
Cutler, Alan, 9 E-Worlds, described, 22–23
Cuvier, Georges, 16–17 Earth
Cyclopes, 8 age of, 44–47
fossils provide information about
D history of, 20
D-Worlds, described, 23 recycling on, 22
Dakota (mummified hadrosaur), 75 Ediacarans, 54
Darmstadt, Germany, 61 eggs, fossilized, 36–37, 74
Darwin, Charles eons, described, 47
evolution of man and, 78, 80 erosion
Lyell and, 41 angular unconformities and, 40
natural selection and, 17 exposure of fossils by, 23
deep time, numbers in, 38 Uniformitarianism and, 41
deposition, 23, 40 Evans, John, 61–62
The Descent of Man and Selection in evolution
Relation to Sex (Darwin), 78, 80 in Cenozoic Era, 61
dinosaur fossils fossils provide information about,
in Australia, 75 20–21
coprolites, 36 of humans, 78, 81–85, 87
dinosaur defined, 19 during Mesozoic Era, 58
early discoveries, 19 during Paleozoic Era, 55
eggs, 74 during Precambrian, 53
feathered in China, 76–77 during Proterozoic Era, 54
griffins and, 10 extinctions
in Mongolia, 10–11 catastrophism theory and, 17
in Morrison Formation, 34, 58– climate change and, 64–65
59, 60, 71, 75 fossils provide information about,
mummified, 30–31 20
recent discoveries, 19, 76 mass, 52, 63–64
war between Marsh and Cope, 60
Dinosaur National Monument, F
Utah, 59 “false forms,” 32
dinosaur tracks, 34, 36, 71 Ferdinando II (Grand Duke of
Dinosaurs of Darkness (Rich), 75 Florence), 9, 12
Diplodocus, 59 Fickle, Charles, 7, 8
dissections The First Fossil Hunters (Mayor), 10
by Cuvier, 16 Flinders Ranges, Australia, 54
by Steno, 9, 12 Flores, 19–20, 84–85
by Tyson, 80 Florissant, Colorado, 27–28
DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) footprints
African connection, 81–84 casts of, 34
of chimpanzees, 80 dinosaur, 34, 36, 71
mutations, 87–88 hominin, 82, 83–84
Neandertal, 81 foraminifera, 43
preserved by amber, 25 fossil hunters
Dodson, Peter, 69 age of rocks and discoveries,
Douglass, Earl, 59, 60 16–17

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