question_answer 6)

List 10 modern day animals and using the internet resources link it to a corresponding ancient fossil. Name both. 

Answer:

     

Modern day animal	Ancient fossil
(i) Modern man (Homo sapiens sapiens)	(a) Cro-magnon man (H. sapiens fossilis).
(ii) Modern horse (Equus)	(b) Dawn horse (Eohippus).
(iii) Modern birds	(c) Ornithomimus dinosaur with a wish-bone.
(iv) Modern Amphibians	(d) Labyrinthodonts (earliest fossilized  amphibians).
(v) Modern camel (Camelus)	(e) Poebrotherium and Procamelus.
(vi) Modern elephant (Elephas indica)	(f) Moeritherium of late Eocene times.
(vii) Ammonites (Cephalopod molluse)	(g) Bactrites of Ordovician period.
(viii) Arthropods like crustaceans, insects,  arachnids etc.	(h) Trilobites of Palaeozoic era.
(ix) Land-dwelling forms	(i) Crossopterygian fishes.
(x) Reptiles	(j) Stegocephalians of Carboniferous period.