Daily Archives: February 13, 2011

Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A brittle star trace fossil from the Jurassic of Utah

This week we have a trace fossil that looks almost exactly like the animal that made it. A trace fossil is evidence of organism activity recorded in the rock record. The photograph above shows one of my favorite specimens: Asteriacites … Continue reading

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