Fauna's all of the animal life of any particular region or time. The corresponding term for plants's flora. Zoologists and paleontologists use fauna to refer to a typical collection of animals found in a specific time or place, for example the "Sonoran Desert fauna" or the "Burgess shale fauna". Paleontologists sometimes refer to a sequence of faunal stages, which's a series of rocks all containing similar fossils. The name comes from Fauna, a Roman fertility and earth goddess, the Roman god Fa… (More on Fauna)