Refer to the Scenario Below, and Then Answer the Following

question 8

Multiple Choice

Refer to the scenario below, and then answer the following question(s) .
You are the managing naturalist for a natural history museum that has just received a batch of fossils from one of the field paleontologists sponsored by the museum. The note in the box states the fossils all came from the same rock layer. The museum is organized according to geologic timescale, and its management needs you to tell them to which department (based on era) and period specialist (an individual with experience with life-forms of a particular geologic-timescale period) the fossils should go. You find fossils of fish and seed-bearing plants but no reptiles or higher animals and no flowering plants.
-To which period specialist should you forward the fossils?

• A)Devonian
• B)Carboniferous
• C)Permian
• D)Triassic

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