The first fossil find was dated to 4. 4 million years ago on the basis of its stratigraphic position between two volcanic strata: the basal Gaala Tuff Complex ( GATC ) and the Daam Aatu Basaltic Tuff ( DABT ).

The sense was extended to fossil resin circa 1400, and this became the main sense, as the use of ambergris waned.

Riversleigh, in Queensland, is one of Australia's most renowned fossil sites and was recorded as a World Heritage site in 1994.

Riversleigh, in Queensland, is one of Australia's most renowned fossil sites and was recorded as a World Heritage site in 1994.

The turnover in this group is clearly marked at the species level .< ref > Statistical analysis of marine losses at this time suggests that the decrease in diversity was caused more by a sharp increase in extinctions than by a decrease in speciation .< ref > The K – T boundary record of dinoflagellates is not as well-understood, mainly because only microbial cysts provide a fossil record, and not all dinoflagellate species have cyst-forming stages, thereby likely causing diversity to be underestimated.

While his assertion was not initially well-received, later intensive field studies of fossil beds lent weight to his claim.

The 2003 discovery of the fossil remains of Homo floresiensis was cited by paleontologist Henry Gee, editor of the journal Nature as possible evidence that humanoid cryptids like the Orang Pendek and yeti were " founded on grains of truth ".

If a 2, 000 ( lb / ac )/ year sequestration rate was achieved on all of cropland in the United States, nearly 1. 6 billion tons of carbon dioxide would be sequestered per year, mitigating close to one quarter of the country's total fossil fuel emissions.

Comorian waters are the habitat of the coelacanth, a rare fish with limblike fins and a cartilaginous skeleton, the fossil remains of which date as far back as 400 million years and which was once thought to have become extinct about 70 million years ago.

* Chimera ( paleontology ), a fossil which was reconstructed with parts from different animals

It lived during the Early Cretaceous, in China, where the first fossil was found in the Junggar Basin.

Sources of electricity in the U. S. in 2009 Fossil fuel power plant | fossil fuel generation ( mainly coal ) was the largest source.

The majority of fossil fuel usage for the generation of electricity was coal and gas.

A major problem at that time was the lack of fossil intermediaries.

The driving force in the east African researches was the Leakey family, with Louis Leakey and his wife Mary Leakey, and later their son Richard and daughter in-law Meave being among the most successful fossil hunters and palaeoanthropologists.

In the 1980s Ethiopia emerged as the new hot spot of palaeoanthropology as " Lucy ", the most complete fossil member of the species Australopithecus afarensis, was found by Don Johanson in Hadar in the desertic Middle Awash region of northern Ethiopia.

In 1994 Meave Leakey discovered Australopithecus anamensis, but the find was overshadowed by the news of Tim White's discovery of Ardipithecus ramidus, which pushed back the fossil record to.

The fossil evidence was insufficient for Richard Leakey to resolve this debate.

In 2010, Saadanius was described as a close relative of the last common ancestor of the crown catarrhines, and tentatively dated to 29 – 28 million years ago, helping to fill an 11-million-year gap in the fossil record.

* In February 2006 a fossil, the Gawis cranium, was found which might possibly be a species intermediate between H. erectus and H. sapiens or one of many evolutionary dead ends.

A Homo fossil was found near some Oldowan tools, and its age was noted at 2. 3 million years old, suggesting that maybe the Homo species did indeed create and use these tools.

A fossil normally preserves only a portion of the deceased organism, usually that portion that was partially mineralized during life, such as the bones and teeth of vertebrates, or the chitinous or calcareous exoskeletons of invertebrates.

The earliest fossil of Ostrich-like birds is the Palaeotis living near the Asiatic steppes, from the Middle Eocene, a middle-sized flightless bird that was originally believed to be a bustard.

This distinguished it from the older Pliocene Epoch, which Lyell had originally thought to be the youngest fossil rock layer.

The coelacanth has been nicknamed a “ living fossil ”, because it originally was known only through fossils, long before the first discovery of a live specimen.

In 1907, it was placed by Carl Ernst Otto Kuntze in the otherwise fossil genus Steinhauera, but doubt as to whether the giant sequoia is related to the fossil originally so named makes this name invalid.

Although originally created as a reference point for fossil fuelled vehicles, driving cycles have been used for estimating how many miles an electric vehicle will do on a single charge .< ref >

Baphetids were among the first of the Carboniferous fossil tetrapods to be found and were originally described in 1850 by William Dawson.

However, in 2010, Melott & Bambach found strong evidence in the fossil record confirming the extinction event periodicity originally claimed by Raup & Sepkoski in 1984, but at a higher confidence level and over a time period nearly twice as long.

Thus, a question that is often asked of fossil deposits is to what extent does the fossil deposit record the true biota that originally lived there?

This superficially resembles the elytra of a beetle and explains why Buckland originally misidentified the first fossil species.

The Late Eocene ( Montmartre Formation, some 35 mya ) fossil Limosa gypsorum of France was originally placed in Numenius and may in fact belong there.

He declares he will send the controversial environmental bill to Congress with a massive 20 % cut in fossil fuels-far more than the 10 % originally envisaged-and that he is withdrawing his support for the weak crime bill, promising to write a stronger one in due time.

It was originally described as a separate species from the Black Swan based on the slightly larger size of the fossil bones found and the apparent absence of the Black Swan from New Zealand prior to 1864.

Several mammalian fossils were collected along with a left lower canine, originally identified as a non-human primate, later revealed as the site's first fossil hominin in 1979 by P. Andrews and T. White.

* Mountain Pygmy Possum ( Burramys parvus ), Australia's only truly hibernating marsupial, known originally from the fossil record and then discovered in 1966.

The fossil bones originally described as Omorhamphus storchii are the remains of a juvenile Gastornis giganteus.

It was originally considered the last of the Dicynodonts, but recent fossil finds from Queensland revealed that the Dicynodonts actually survived until the Early Cretaceous.

Other supposed species of Embolotherium are probably synonymous with these two species and were originally based on juvenile skulls, poorly preserved fossil material, or specimens that are not significantly different from either E. andrewsi or E. grangeri.

The Florida Geological Survey fossil vertebrate collection ( FGS ) was started during the 1910s and was originally housed in Tallahassee.

: [...] The Red Mountain ores are known as a red fossil ore, because originally the iron accumulated in extensive beds of fragments of fossils, principally the hard parts of crinoids, bryozoans, and brachiopods.

Zealandia was originally thought to have no native land mammal fauna, but a recent discovery in 2006 of a fossil mammal jaw from the Miocene in the Otago region shows otherwise.

* February 17 – Two Ethiopian fossil skulls originally found in 1967 by Richard Leakey, Omo I and Omo II, are re-dated at 195, 000 years old, making them the oldest Homo Sapiens remains known.