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ammonites amphibians ancient angiosperms animals and plants arthropods Australia Australopithecus belemnites belong birds bivalve body bones brachiopods brittlestar bryozoan buried calcite called Cambrian Carboniferous Cenozoic cephalopods chalky claws Club mosses coal coelacanth coiled colony common cone conifer coral crab Cretaceous crocodile decay Devonian dinosaur Diprotodon dogfish echinoid eggs Eocene Eryops example extinct fern fish formed fossil record fossils Gastropod geological Ginkgo hard horsetail human ichthyosaurs jaws Jurassic kangaroo known land leaf legs limestone living today lizard mammals Mammoths marsupial meat eater Mesozoic million years ago million years old minerals Miocene mollusks mosasaur mussel numbers Oligocene Paleozoic placental mammals plates Pleistocene plesiosaur Pliocene predators preserved probably pterosaurs remains reptiles scallop sea bed sea urchin sediment sedimentary rock seeds shape shark Silurian similar skeletons skull snail shells snakes soft specimen spines sponge starfish stones surface tail tissues toadstones tooth tree Triassic trilobites usss vertebrates