Exceptional fossil preservation
Subtitle: a unique view on the evolution of marine life
By: edited by David J. Bottjer ... [et al.]
Contributors: Bottjer, David J
Series: Critical moments and perspectives in Earth history and paleobiology; Critical moments in paleobiology and earth history series
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 403
Subjects: Marine animals, Fossil; Taphonomy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Fossil-lagerstätten: jewels of the fossil record / David J. Bottjer ... [et al.]; title: Enigmatic Ediacara fossils: ancestors or aliens? / David J. Bottjer; title: Chengjiang: early record of the Cambrian explosion / James W. Hagadorn; title: Burgess Shale: Cambrian explosion in full bloom / James W. Hagadorn; title: Burgess Shale-type localities: the global picture / James W. Hagadorn; title: Orsten deposits from Sweden: miniature late Cambrian arthropods / Carol M. Tang; title: Beecher's trilobite bed: Ordovician pyritization for the other half of the trilobite / Walter Etter; title: Hunsrück Slate: widespread pyritization of a Devonian fauna / Walter Etter; title: Bear Gulch: an exceptional Upper Carboniferous plattenkalk / James W. Hagadorn; title: Mazon Creek: preservation in late Paleozoic deltaic and marginal marine environments / Stephen A. Schellenberg; title: Grès à Voltzia: preservation in early Mesozoic deltaic and marginal marine environments / Walter Etter; title: Monte San Giorgio: remarkable Triassic marine vertebrates / Walter Etter; title: Berlin-Ichthyosaur: preserving some of the earth's largest marine vertebrates / David J. Bottjer; title: Osteno: Jurassic preservation to the cellular level / Carol M. Tang; title: Posidonia Shale: Germany's Jurassic marine park / Walter Etter and Carol M. Tang; title: La Voulte-sur-Rhône: exquisite cephalopod preservation / Walter Etter; title: Oxford Clay: England's Jurassic marine park / Carol M. Tang; title: Solnhofen: plattenkalk preservation with Archaeopteryx / Walter Etter; title: Smoky Hill Chalk: spectacular Cretaceous marine fauna / David J. Bottjer; title: Monte Bolca: an Eocene fishbowl / Carol M. Tang