Paleonet: most iconic / most important fossils

[Oliver Rauhut]

As an afterthought: Glossopteris, Mesosaurs and Lystrosaurus as evidence for continental drift.
I guess there's lots more, once you start thinking about that...

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Dr. Oliver Rauhut 
Curator for Amphibians, Reptiles, and Birds 
Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie 
Richard-Wagner-Strasse 10 
D-80333 München 
Germany 
email: o.rauhut at lrz.uni-muenchen.de  
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> From: bk at tiefes-leben.de
> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:10:34 +0100
> To: paleonet at nhm.ac.uk
> Subject: Paleonet: most iconic / most important fossils
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> Hello PaleoNet,
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> I am preparing a paleontological museum educational project on the history of live (very general) and for that purpose would like to know, which fossils  could be considered by you as the most important / most iconic for our past & current understanding of evolution and the history of life. 
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> I think of the Archeopteryx as an icon for a "missing link", the "Ohio animal" as an icon for extinction.
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> I also have fossils in mind, that are iconic for specific events, such as Anomalocaris for the Cambrian explosion.
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> I don't have necessarily individual fossils in mind, but also suite's like Trueman's Gryphaea and Brinkmann's Kosmoceras for gradualism  Willimsons Turkana molluscs for punctualism (but see Van Bocxlaer et al. 2007) etc.
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> Suggestions are welcome! (Probably there is already a compilation published somewhere?)
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> Thank you,
> Björn Kröger
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