Evolution of Fossil EcosystemsEvolution of Fossil Ecosystems describes all of the main Fossil Lagerstätten (sites of exceptional fossil preservation) from around the world in a chronological order. It covers the history of research, stratigraphy and taphonomy, main faunal and floral elements, and the palaeoecology of each site and gives a comparison with coeval sites around the w |
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Chapter 3 Chengjiang | 32 |
Chapter 4 The Soom Shale | 42 |
Chapter 11 The Holzmaden Shale | 133 |
Chapter 12 The Morrison Formation | 144 |
Chapter 13 The Solnhofen Limestone | 156 |
Chapter 14 The Jehol Group | 168 |
Chapter 15 El Montsec and Las Hoyas | 183 |
Chapter 16 The Santana and Crato Formations | 202 |
Chapter 17 Grube Messel | 219 |
Chapter 18 The White River Group | 232 |
Chapter 5 The Herefordshire Nodules | 53 |
Chapter 6 The Hunsrück Slate | 63 |
Chapter 7 The Rhynie Chert | 75 |
Chapter 8 Mazon Creek | 90 |
Chapter 9 Karoo | 104 |
Chapter 10 Grès à Voltzia | 123 |
Chapter 19 Baltic Amber | 243 |
Chapter 20 Rancho La Brea | 258 |
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abundant amphibians angiosperms animals aquatic arthropods assemblage Baltic amber basin Beaufort Group beds beetles benthic birds bivalves brachiopods Brea Burgess Shale burrows Cambrian Carboniferous carnivores Chapter Chengjiang common conodont coprolites Crato Crato Formation Cretaceous crocodiles crustaceans deposits described Devonian diverse early ecosystem Ediacara biota environment extinct fauna fish forms fossil record freshwater genera genus geological Germany Grès à Voltzia Grube Messel herbivores Herefordshire Holzmaden Holzmaden Shale Hoyas Hunsrück ichthyosaurs insects Jehol Jurassic Karoo known Lagerstätten lagoon lake larvae Length living mammals marine Martill Mazon Creek Member Mesozoic molluscs Montsec Morrison Formation Museum nodules occur organisms orthocone ostracods Permian plants Plattenkalks plesiosaurs predators preserved primitive pterosaurs quarry rare Reconstruction represented reptiles Rhynie Chert rocks sandstone sediment Silurian skeletons skull soft tissue soft-bodied Solnhofen Limestone Soom Shale South species specimens spiders STRATIGRAPHIC suggests tail TAPHONOMY terrestrial Triassic trilobites turtles vertebrates White River Group