Walcott & Whittington
The type of careers Walcott and Whittington had.
What is a paleontologist?
The modern animal that Wiwaxia resembles.
What is Wiwaxia resembles no modern animals?
The reason why we classify organisms.
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The highest degree Walcott obtained.
What is high school dropout?
The way Odaraia moves around.
What is swimming on its back while using its tail for stabilization?
Do y'all think the Burgess Shale organisms should have gotten their own phyla?
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The importance of looking at fossils with different orientations.
What is providing more structural insight for Whittington?
The first arthropod group Whittington looked at.
What is Marrella?
Is there a role in the art in science? What is it?
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The difference between a camera lucida and a photo.
What is a camera lucida facilitates accurate sketching of objects?
The way Anomalocaris ate.
What is using its feeding appendage to direct its prey to its mouth (a strange ring of plates), where it could close and grind away at food?
The influence of technology on depiction accuracy (in reference to Walcott and Whittington).
There is a reference to Walcott vs Whittington’s depictions of fauna. Although Whittington went old school, his depictions were much more accurate (3D).
The approximate date that Walcott met Whittington.
What is Walcott died before Whittington could meet!
The reason why Burgess Shale organisms did not get their own phyla despite being so different.
What is phylum is a very high level of classification so it wasn’t easy for them to get their own even though they didn’t resemble anything before them.
The historical relationship between Walcott and Whittington.
Walcott first identified everything in the BS and used oversimplified categorizations before Whittington came along. Then, Whittington provided a more detailed examination to increase our knowledge of the Pre-cambrian Era.