A History Of Life

1. Moving one eye to the other side of the head
(Evolutionary innovations/Eocene)

An apparent evolutionary conondrum has been recently solved by the study of some Eocene fossils related to the flatfishes. Matt Friedman of the Chicago University, an expert of fish evolution, has

2. From production to final burial
(Taphonomy/Shell transport)

...sandstones of the Santa Liestra Group outcropping along the Esera valley (see figure) are the result. The Eocene sedimentation in the narrow basins of the Pyrenean foreland seems strongly dominated by...

3. Back to the Basin
(Paleontological sites/Paleogene Europe)

...he record of the highest molluscan diversity of the Cenozoic, lagging a few million years after the early Eocene climatic optimum (Didier Merle, personal communication - with an upcoming book on this ...

4. What's a mangrove?
(Past ecosystems/Mangrove forest)

...t deposits (Plaziat 1995). Such fossils suggest that the modern ecosystem arose at the turn of the early Eocene, during the warmest times and the largest transgressions of the Cenozoic, a fact confir...