A History Of Life

1. Ichthyosaur turbidites
(Taphonomy/Vertebrate Transport & Burial)

Doing stratigraphy and paleontology in Hound Island (Lower Alexander Arch - 7 Miles S of Kake In the Keku Strait), about 1200 km north of Vancouver on the Alaskan coast, must be fun for a trained pa

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

...study of Amphistium and Heteronectes now shows that intermediate forms have existed, giving credit to a slower natural selection than previously thought by advocates of the saltatory change. Ref...

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

...sport. Successions are much younger here and the best shell beds are from the uppermost Pliocene and the lower Pleistocene. These cover a full range of taphonomic types, from biogenic to sedimentologi...

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

...uente de Montanana, in western Cataluña, is better known as the Ilerdian stratotype (uppermost Thanetian-lower Ypresian: Hottinger & Schaub 1960). If you move along stratal surfaces to the South, ...

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

... other coastal settings (laggonal), occurring at the top of the succession at La Ferme de l’Orme. The lower Bartonian (Auversian) is visible at Le Guépelle, north of Paris, thanks to an excavation ...

6. Lower Paleozoic exceptional biota
(Past ecosystems/Shoreface)

The journal Geology has recently published two reports on exceptionally well-preserved fossil biotas from marginal marine sediments, one of Silurian (von Bitter et al. 2007), the other of late Ordovic

7. Shell beds at ravinement surfaces
(Taphonomy/Shell beds and sequence stratigraphy)

...m are ravinement-surface shell beds, others correspond to intervals of maximum-flooding. The lowermost shell bed in this meter-scale group of strata is interspersed with rounded coarse gra...

8. Paleontological sites of the Pisa Province (Italy)
(Paleontological sites/Neogene Europe)

...nterval with mostly shallow water marine facies, but also with some outer shelf-bathyal sediments in the lower Pliocene and some transitional and terrestrial facies here and there. &nbsp...