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Fossils of Fremont

There' s fossils in those hills.""

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Time scale

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Geology of the

Regional Area

The movement of the faults have

created topographic highs andlows, which shaped how water

would flow through the area.

Water is important to sustain

organisms, but also brings

sediments to cover theirremains.

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Changing landscape,creates environments forliving organisms

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View from Fremont Hills(northwest)

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may be located.

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Geologic maps

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Sandstone beds that were laid downhorizontally, are now tilted

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Capitola,

storm layers

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Fremont

(Irvingtonian Stage)

Plants (pines, sycamore, willow, oak, cattail)

Invertebrates ( fresh water mussel, clam, snail)

Vertebrates (sunfish, sucker, minnow, stickleback; salamapeeper frog, toad; turtle, lizard, snake; goose,

owls; shrew, mole; woodrat

ground squirrel, gopher ; cottentail; sabercat, jaguar, wolf, coyote, fox,

bear, badger; camel, antelope, deer, ox, peccary, mammoth,

mastodon, ground sloth, horse

mallard, turkey,der, bullfrog,n

, pocket mouse, deer mouse, tree mouse

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Now homes are on top of these

ridges. Gravel from this quarry

(Santa Clara Formation), was used

for fill on many of the streets in the

south bay. Broken-up fossils

could be found in the matrix.

Bell Quarry

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Tetrameryx irvingtonensis, similar

to the modern prongbuck

Boy paleontologists uncovered

new species

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the tusk (above)skull of young mammoth, notice

rib of a mammoth (right)

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Mammut americanus

(Mastodon); smaller than a

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similar to modern elephant

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Smilo

larger than a modern tiger; short tail,canines probably to stab mammoths,

mastodons, and ground sloths

and small ver eebrat

ckor to find teeth,

fting tsi hrough

don californicus

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