What are the most important historical fossil findings?

There are hundreds or even thousands of very important fossil findings, but several of them stand out forever the changing way we look at the big taxon of animals or era of palate history.

The fossil finding most is 1) The discovery of Mosasaur (water reptile) Georges Cuvier in 1808, which in 1850 announced the paleontological "age of reptiles", 2) Obří atevě a> by 3), which would help him , and>) and>, and>, and>,), about him, , and>,). Dinosaur-Bird Archeopteryx in 1861, which provided fundamental support for this theory, 4) Renaissance of fossil hunting in the Cambrian slate slate in the 1970s and 1980 They revealed that appeared at the new point, which revealed at a new point that revealed that they have appeared at a new point. Well preserved fossils of some of the firstWell -known multicellular animals.

Although fossil findings have occurred since ancient times, only until the careful work of Georges Cuvier at the age of 20. The scientists have accepted that fossils represent ancient animals, many of which are now extinct. The world had difficulty accepting extinction for philosophical and theological reasons until now. At the beginning of the 19th century, the Renaissance of fossil findings, with all the main groups of dinosaurs and many fossil fish, invertebrates and plants found during this time. Adolph Brongniart dug important plant fossils and divided the history of plant life into four era: spores (lichens, mosses, ferns, etc.), needlands, cycads and modern era of flowering plants.

The most important historical fossil findings Recently are those that are engaged in the dawn of animals - from 520 million years and older, up to about 600 million years when ulticellular organisms appear for the first time. The most interesting findings appeared from the slate of Burgess inWestern Canada and a misconception in East Canada. The Burgess Slate reveals a well -preserved early world of anthropods, molluscs, mushrooms and annelids, while the misconception is an even earlier era where almost all animals were stationary front and filter -shaped bag and symbiones from the sea. It was probably Cnidarians such as modern sea pens or even more primitive offshoots of the animal kingdom.