PALEONTOLOGY

# Paleontology is the study of ancient life/ ancient animals or plants

# Fossils/fodere : the remain/trace of ancient living form that naturally preserve in sedimentary rocks.

# Taxonomy is the study on identity of fossils

Ammonite

# Taphonomy is the study of fossilization processs

# Phylogeny is the study of evolution of fossils

# Palinology is the study of spores and pollens fossils.

# Biostratigraphy  is the study of distribution of fossil/age zonation

# Paleobiogeography is the study of geographic distribution of fossils through time

# Paleoecology is the study of living environment of fossils

# Substantive Uniformitarianism : similarities of modern and ancient living form

# Observable event occurs in present can explain the process that occur in the past (present is the key to the past)

# Paleoecology is the study on individuals, populations and community of ancient organism and their interaction eith abiotic and biotic component in the ecosystem

• Physical process of fossilization :

1. Biological/physical decomposition
2. Transportation
3. Burial, diagenesis and metamorphism
4. Uplifting, weathering and erosion

• Better chances, quality and rates of fossilization

1. Habitat

2. Depositional environment

3. Anatomical (hard part)

Trilobite

4. Cementation rate

• Better preserve of fossil

1. Immediate burial

2. Fast cementation

3. Reduce environment

4. Fine sediments

• Physical classification of fossils

1. Fossils of Hard part

2. Fossils of soft part

3. Trace fossils

4. Mould and cast

(external mould : concave, internal mould : convex)