Information to help students figure out what the Devonian environment was like in Central New York

Devonian Data

Graphs and charts to help you figure what organisms were around and what the environment was like.

 

Biodiversity

Find out what the number of different types of organisms within an ecosystem means.

 

Meet the Organisms

Learn about specific fossil organisms including where they could be found and what environmental conditions they preferred.

Fragmentation

An explanation of how knowing how complete or broken a fossil is can tell us about the environment.

 

Rock Color

An explanation of what evidence rock color can give us about an environment.

 

 Size of Organisms

Learn about how average size of organisms can be a clue to figuring out environmental conditions.

 

Websites

Links to additional websites that have information about the Devonian period.