Know Why Knowing About Dinosaur Fossil Is Important Importance Paleontological resources, sometimes known as fossils, are any trace of a former life that has been preserved in a geologic context. They provide a concrete link to former life, landscapes, and climates. They demonstrate how life, ecosystems, and climate have evolved, as well as how living things have adapted to those changes. These lessons are especially relevant as the current climate continues to change.
Life Evidence Body fossils and trace fossils are the two basic forms of fossils. Body fossils are any "pieces" of a living organism, such as bones, teeth, insect bodies, shells, feathers, plants, fruits, flowers, nuts, and so on. Trace fossils include footprints, trackways, swim traces, burrows root traces, or dens, and even coprolites (fossil excrement). Body fossils, as bits of once-living creatures, provide evidence of what was alive there and when. Trace fossils are useful because they "animate" ancient animals or plants by preserving a point in time when an organism was still living. Buried Treasure Fossils is thrilled to showcase a magnificent selection of Jurassic and Cretaceous dinosaur fossils for sale. Geologic Setting Body or trace fossil identification and categorization offers a list of plants and animals that existed in a certain location. However, there is no tale to go along with the bones until the geologic context is studied, such as the particular location, kind of rock, specific stratum, orientation, as well as other fossils found nearby.