A search for marine Inverebrates on the American Museum of Natural History
turned up some fascinating web sites.  Have fun surfing.

Sylvia S. Edwards
Huntsville, Alabama
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Niles Eldredge
... life. These terms were in place by the 1840s, and they refer to large
chunks of time that seem to have some similarity -- particularly, again, in
marine invertebrate faunas. Unifying perhaps this first chunk here is the
Paleozoic and then the Mesozoic, which we otherwise know as the Age of the
Dinosaurs ...
http://www.amnh.org/science/biodiversity/extinction/Day1/bytes/EldredgePres.
html 04/08/99, 31274 bytes

American Museum of Natural History
... westward across New York State and into Ohio and Indiana. It also
extended southward into West Virginia and Kentucky. This sea was home to
many invertebrates, especially coral, along with many jawless, shark-like
fish. The corals in the Catskill Sea built many reefs in different areas.
Along with corals ...
http://www.amnh.org/youngnaturalistawards/1999/blood.html 05/20/99, 26521
bytes

American Museum of Natural History
... is of the Lodgepole Formation and dates to the early part of the
Mississippian period. The Lodgepole limestone contains plenty of evidence
that marine animals were present here when the sediment accumulated. Fossils
such as horn coral and brachiopods, and bryozoans and crinoid fragments, are
typical ...
http://www.amnh.org/youngnaturalistawards/1999/matson.html 05/20/99, 33512
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American Museum of Natural History:
... , Museum scientists carefully thawed the animal and then injected it
with a preservative. Neil Landman, chairman of the Museum's Department of
Invertebrates and head of the Museum's squid research team, was thoroughly
delighted to receive such a high-quality specimen, noting that "this is a
rare opportunity ...
http://www.amnh.org/science/biodiversity/giant_squid/squid1.html 01/29/99,
4488 bytes

Reef Watch: Postcards from the Reefs: July 14
... Southworth Events of the Day Our day began with a presentation by Joe
and Lisa Vanderbloemen from the University of South Florida's Department of
Marine Science and Remote Sensing Lab. Joe reviewed factors that influence
the ocean environment and the geography of the Florida Keys Marine
Sanctuary. He ...
http://www.amnh.org/learn/reef_watch/postcards/pages/dates/july14.htm
07/16/99, 16479 bytes

American Museum of Natural History:
... will be on display in the Hall of Biodiversity, on the first floor.
Check back soon for an exact date of the opening. Giant squids are the
largest marine invertebrates--animals without backbones--in the world. A
giant squid has a tubular body with eight arms, each bearing two rows of
tooth-edged suckers ...
http://www.amnh.org/science/biodiversity/giant_squid/squid2.html 01/29/99,
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http://www.nos.noaa.gov/nmsp/fknms/sci/reef.html - Florida Keys National
Marine Sanctuary Site

http://www.aqua.org/animals/conservation/reefact.html - National Aquarium in
Baltimore