Paleonet: most iconic / most important fossils

[Jere H. Lipps]

I agree with Virginia.   Coccoliths are certainly 
cool.   Hankenina is a fascinating and beautiful 
foram.   But you'd probably only need a slide 
with a tiny blob of anything on it, and a very 
large SEM of it hanging above the slide.   The 
radiolarian "lunar landing modules" are cool and 
diatoms have been favorites for a couple hundred 
years.  But again, pictures are best in a 
walk-around gallery.   Do more than one microfossil; do a wall of them.    Jere

At 11:56 AM 11/14/2012 Wednesday, you wrote:
>I think it is important to introduce 
>microfossils to your audience also. A lot of 
>people are not aware of their existance in the 
>fossil record. Microfossils have a tremendous 
>importance in biostratigraphy (i.e oil 
>exploration) and in 
>paleoecology,paleoceanophaphic 
>reconstructions,  for instance. In addition, 
>some members of  the major groups Forams, Rads, 
>diatoms, etc etc. possess outstandig beauty. 
>Some microscopes and micropaleontological slides 
>can be set up or everybody  to take a look.
>Some good SEM pics of coccolithophores i.e 
>Emiliania huxleyi in today Earth's oceans 
>plankton will also add to  you educational project.
>
>Virginia Friedman
>Paleontologist
>
>--- On Wed, 11/14/12, bjoern kroeger <bk at tiefes-leben.de> wrote:
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>From: bjoern kroeger <bk at tiefes-leben.de>
>Subject: Paleonet: most iconic / most important fossils
>To: "PaleoNet" <paleonet at nhm.ac.uk>
>Date: Wednesday, November 14, 2012, 3:10 PM
>
>Hello PaleoNet,
>
>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.
>
>I think of the Archeopteryx as an icon for a 
>"missing link", the "Ohio animal" as an icon for extinction.
>
>I also have fossils in mind, that are iconic for 
>specific events, such as Anomalocaris for the Cambrian explosion.
>
>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.
>
>Suggestions are welcome! (Probably there is 
>already a compilation published somewhere?)
>
>Thank you,
>Björn Kröger
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