Paleontology

Espectacion, Lyra L.
Labe, Messiah Louhym G.
Paleontologists use fossil remains to understand different aspects of extinct
and living organism.
 Fossil Information:
[1] lifespan and environment
[2] lifestyle
[3] behavior
[4] evolutionary history
 Four Major Subdisciplines of Paleontology

Vertebrate Paleontology study of fossil of animals

with backbone.

Invertebrate Paleontology study of fossil of

animals without backbone.

Paleobotany study of fossil of plants.

Micropaleontology study of fossil of

microscopic organisms.
 Biostratigraphy branch of
stratigraphy which focuses
on correlating and assigning
relative ages of rock strata
by using the fossil
assemblages contained
within them.
Paleoclimatology study of
changes in climate change
taken on the scale of the
entire history of Earth.
 Radiometric Dating is a
technique used to date
Carbon-14
materials such as rocks or
carbon, in which trace Uranium-238
radioactive impurities were
Potassium-40
selectively incorporated when
they were formed.
Carbon-14 Dating

14
7 + 10 14
6 + 11 1 = 5730
2

Uranium-238 Dating

238 206
92 82 + 8 42 + 6 10 1 = 4.51 109
2

Potassium-40 Dating

40
19 + 10 40
18 1 = 1.2 109
2