Paleozoology, the Glossary
Palaeozoology, also spelled as Paleozoology (Greek: παλαιόν, palaeon "old" and ζῷον, zoon "animal"), is the branch of paleontology, paleobiology, or zoology dealing with the recovery and identification of multicellular animal remains from geological (or even archeological) contexts, and the use of these fossils in the reconstruction of prehistoric environments and ancient ecosystems.[1]
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48 relations: Animal, Archaeology, Biostratigraphy, Brachiopod, Conservation biology, Crustacean, Devonian, Dinosaur, Echinoderm, Ecosystem, Ediacaran, Exoskeleton, Flatworm, Fossil, Geology, Greek language, Hildegarde Howard, History of invertebrate paleozoology, Insect, Invertebrate, Invertebrate paleontology, Jellyfish, Macrofossil, Microfossil, Micropaleontology, Mollusca, Multicellular organism, Natural environment, Nematode, Neoproterozoic, Osteichthyes, Paleobiology, Paleobotany, Paleoecology, Paleontology, Paleozoic, Prehistory, Shark, Soft-bodied organism, Taxonomy of commonly fossilised invertebrates, Tooth, Trace fossil, Trilobite, University of Missouri, Vertebrate, Vertebrate paleontology, Zooarchaeology, Zoology.
- Subfields of paleontology
- Subfields of zoology
Animal
Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the biological kingdom Animalia.
Archaeology
Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.
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Biostratigraphy
Biostratigraphy is the branch of stratigraphy which focuses on correlating and assigning relative ages of rock strata by using the fossil assemblages contained within them. Paleozoology and Biostratigraphy are subfields of paleontology.
See Paleozoology and Biostratigraphy
Brachiopod
Brachiopods, phylum Brachiopoda, are a phylum of trochozoan animals that have hard "valves" (shells) on the upper and lower surfaces, unlike the left and right arrangement in bivalve molluscs.
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Conservation biology
Conservation biology is the study of the conservation of nature and of Earth's biodiversity with the aim of protecting species, their habitats, and ecosystems from excessive rates of extinction and the erosion of biotic interactions.
See Paleozoology and Conservation biology
Crustacean
Crustaceans are a group of arthropods that are a part of the subphylum Crustacea, a large, diverse group of mainly aquatic arthropods including decapods (shrimps, prawns, crabs, lobsters and crayfish), seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, opossum shrimps, amphipods and mantis shrimp.
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Devonian
The Devonian is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic era during the Phanerozoic eon, spanning 60.3 million years from the end of the preceding Silurian period at million years ago (Ma), to the beginning of the succeeding Carboniferous period at Ma.
Dinosaur
Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria.
Echinoderm
An echinoderm is any deuterostomal animal of the phylum Echinodermata, which includes starfish, brittle stars, sea urchins, sand dollars and sea cucumbers, as well as the sessile sea lilies or "stone lilies".
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Ecosystem
An ecosystem (or ecological system) is a system that environments and their organisms form through their interaction.
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Ediacaran
The Ediacaran is a geological period of the Neoproterozoic Era that spans 96 million years from the end of the Cryogenian Period at 635 Mya to the beginning of the Cambrian Period at 538.8 Mya.
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Exoskeleton
An exoskeleton (from Greek έξω éxō "outer" and σκελετός skeletós "skeleton") is a skeleton that is on the exterior of an animal in the form of hardened integument, which both supports the body's shape and protects the internal organs, in contrast to an internal endoskeleton (e.g.
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Flatworm
The flatworms, flat worms, Platyhelminthes, or platyhelminths (from the Greek πλατύ, platy, meaning "flat" and ἕλμινς (root: ἑλμινθ-), helminth-, meaning "worm") are a phylum of relatively simple bilaterian, unsegmented, soft-bodied invertebrates.
Fossil
A fossil (from Classical Latin) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.
Geology
Geology is a branch of natural science concerned with the Earth and other astronomical objects, the rocks of which they are composed, and the processes by which they change over time.
Greek language
Greek (Elliniká,; Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean.
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Hildegarde Howard
Hildegarde Howard (April 3, 1901 – February 28, 1998) was an American pioneer in paleornithology.
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History of invertebrate paleozoology
The history of invertebrate paleozoology (also spelled palaeozoology) differs from the history of paleontology in that the former usually emphasizes paleobiology and the paleoecology of extinct marine invertebrates, while the latter typically emphasizes the earth sciences and the sedimentary rock remains of terrestrial vertebrates.
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Insect
Insects (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta.
Invertebrate
Invertebrates is an umbrella term describing animals that neither develop nor retain a vertebral column (commonly known as a spine or backbone), which evolved from the notochord.
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Invertebrate paleontology
Invertebrate paleontology (also spelled invertebrate palaeontology) is sometimes described as invertebrate paleozoology or invertebrate paleobiology.
See Paleozoology and Invertebrate paleontology
Jellyfish
Jellyfish, also known as sea jellies, are the medusa-phase of certain gelatinous members of the subphylum Medusozoa, which is a major part of the phylum Cnidaria.
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Macrofossil
Macrofossils, also known as megafossils, are the preserved remnants of organic beings and their activities that are large enough to be visible without a microscope.
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Microfossil
A microfossil is a fossil that is generally between 0.001 mm and 1 mm in size, the visual study of which requires the use of light or electron microscopy.
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Micropaleontology
Micropaleontology (American spelling; spelled micropalaeontology in European usage) is the branch of paleontology (palaeontology) that studies microfossils, or fossils that require the use of a microscope to see the organism, its morphology and its characteristic details. Paleozoology and Micropaleontology are subfields of paleontology.
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Mollusca
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals, after Arthropoda; members are known as molluscs or mollusks.
Multicellular organism
A multicellular organism is an organism that consists of more than one cell, unlike unicellular organisms.
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Natural environment
The natural environment or natural world encompasses all biotic and abiotic things occurring naturally, meaning in this case not artificial.
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Nematode
The nematodes (or; Νηματώδη; Nematoda), roundworms or eelworms constitute the phylum Nematoda.
Neoproterozoic
The Neoproterozoic Era is the unit of geologic time from 1 billion to 538.8 million years ago.
See Paleozoology and Neoproterozoic
Osteichthyes
Osteichthyes, also known as osteichthyans or commonly referred to as the bony fish, is a diverse superclass of vertebrate animals that have endoskeletons primarily composed of bone tissue.
See Paleozoology and Osteichthyes
Paleobiology
Paleobiology (or palaeobiology) is an interdisciplinary field that combines the methods and findings found in both the earth sciences and the life sciences. Paleozoology and Paleobiology are subfields of paleontology.
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Paleobotany
Paleobotany, also spelled as palaeobotany, is the branch of botany dealing with the recovery and identification of plant remains from geological contexts, and their use for the biological reconstruction of past environments (paleogeography), and the evolutionary history of plants, with a bearing upon the evolution of life in general. Paleozoology and Paleobotany are subfields of paleontology.
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Paleoecology
Paleoecology (also spelled palaeoecology) is the study of interactions between organisms and/or interactions between organisms and their environments across geologic timescales. Paleozoology and Paleoecology are subfields of paleontology.
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Paleontology
Paleontology, also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present).
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Paleozoic
The Paleozoic (or Palaeozoic) Era is the first of three geological eras of the Phanerozoic Eon.
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Prehistory
Prehistory, also called pre-literary history, is the period of human history between the first known use of stone tools by hominins million years ago and the beginning of recorded history with the invention of writing systems.
See Paleozoology and Prehistory
Shark
Sharks are a group of elasmobranch fish characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton, five to seven gill slits on the sides of the head, and pectoral fins that are not fused to the head.
Soft-bodied organism
Soft-bodied organisms are organisms that lack rigid physical skeletons or frame, roughly corresponds to the group Vermes as proposed by Carl von Linné.
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Taxonomy of commonly fossilised invertebrates
The taxonomy of commonly fossilized invertebrates combines both traditional and modern paleozoological terminology.
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Tooth
A tooth (teeth) is a hard, calcified structure found in the jaws (or mouths) of many vertebrates and used to break down food.
Trace fossil
A trace fossil, also known as an ichnofossil (from ἴχνος ikhnos "trace, track"), is a fossil record of biological activity by lifeforms but not the preserved remains of the organism itself.
See Paleozoology and Trace fossil
Trilobite
Trilobites (meaning "three lobes") are extinct marine arthropods that form the class Trilobita.
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University of Missouri
The University of Missouri (Mizzou or MU) is a public land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri.
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Vertebrate
Vertebrates are deuterostomal animals with bony or cartilaginous axial endoskeleton — known as the vertebral column, spine or backbone — around and along the spinal cord, including all fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.
See Paleozoology and Vertebrate
Vertebrate paleontology
Vertebrate paleontology is the subfield of paleontology that seeks to discover, through the study of fossilized remains, the behavior, reproduction and appearance of extinct vertebrates (animals with vertebrae and their descendants).
See Paleozoology and Vertebrate paleontology
Zooarchaeology
Zooarchaeology merges the disciplines of zoology and archaeology, focusing on the analysis of animal remains within archaeological sites. Paleozoology and Zooarchaeology are subfields of zoology.
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Zoology
ZoologyThe pronunciation of zoology as is usually regarded as nonstandard, though it is not uncommon.
See also
Subfields of paleontology
- Biostratigraphy
- Chronostratigraphy
- Ichnology
- Micropaleontology
- Molecular paleontology
- Neoichnology
- Paleobiology
- Paleobotany
- Paleoclimatology
- Paleoecology
- Paleoentomology
- Paleolimnology
- Paleomycology
- Paleontography
- Paleoparasitology
- Paleopathology
- Paleopedology
- Paleophycology
- Paleotempestology
- Paleovirology
- Paleozoology
- Palynology
- Sclerochronology
- Taphonomy
Subfields of zoology
- Arachnology
- Arthropodology
- Batrachology
- Bryozoology
- Carcinology
- Cnidariology
- Conchology
- Cynology
- Ethology
- Helminthology
- Herpetology
- Ichthyology
- Invertebrate zoology
- Malacology
- Mammalogy
- Nematology
- Ornithology
- Paleozoology
- Planktology
- Sociobiology
- Teuthology
- Vermeology
- Vertebrate zoology
- Zooarchaeology
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleozoology
Also known as Palaeozoologist, Palaeozoology, Paleozoid, Paleozoologist.