Sentence examples for specimens of fossils from inspiring English sources

Long celebrated as a leading research center in the natural sciences, the museum houses some 25 million specimens of fossils, plants, and animals.

Center middle (two photos): Nice specimens of fossil algae.

The Vertebrate Paleontology Collection holds approximately 90,000 specimens of fossil fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.

The UCMP paleobotany catalog (available online) contains information on over 33,400 specimens of fossil plants, algae, and fungi.

Since its founding in 1859, the MCZ has amassed approximately 90,000 specimens of fossil fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.

Analysis of new specimens of fossil peripatids exquisitely preserved in 100 million year old amber from Myanmar – dating between the two competing scenarios – have allowed Ivo de Sena Oliveira and Ming Bai (who are joint first authors of a new study) and colleagues, to offer a solution to the mystery.

However, recent discoveries of more complete, better-preserved specimens of fossil stem snakes such as Dinilysia patagonica (Santonian-Campanian) [ 4], Najash rionegrina (Cenomanian) [ 5, 6], and Coniophis precedens (Maastrichtian) [ 7] suggest that the unique characteristics of scolecophidians likely do not represent the ancestral condition for snakes.

Hyphae with the characteristic appearance of modern Basidiomycota can be seen in some of the earliest known specimens of plant fossils.

with successive cambia and included phloem, and two specimens of the fossil genera Glutoxylon (G. burmense Chowdhury) and Heritieroxylon (H. arunachalensis Lakhanpal, Prakash et Awasthi).

After an intense investigation of more than 1000 specimens of the fossil plant Montsechia vidalii, he and a team of researchers have concluded that the 125-million-year-old water dwellers are close relatives of the foxtail plant, a modern angiosperm.

The University of California ended up with 107 types (one example at left) of which about 30 are gastropods and 48 are bivalves (Merriam 1895; Stewart 1928, 1930) together with a few hundred specimens of miscellaneous invertebrate fossils.