A History Of Life

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

...c vulcanoes where active during the mid Norian, in the Trias (about 210 million years ago). Along the submarine slope of the volcano, sudden deliveries of pyroclasts triggered gravity flows and tur...

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

... (Dominici 2004). References Dominici S. 2001. Taphonomy and paleoecology of shallow marine macrofossil assemblages in a collisional setting (late Pliocene-early Pleistocene, West...

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

...gments on top. This is evidence of fall from suspension tied to flows with higher density with respect to marine water.           &...

4. San Miniato and the history of Earth Science
(Paleontological sites/Neogene Europe)

...a level cycles , lie several shell beds of different nature (Benvenuti et al 2007 ). Collectors of fossil marine molluscs were active here since the Renaissance and in the sixteenth century the first ...

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

...al 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 Ordovician age (...

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

Marine successions thorughout the Phanerozoic are "punctuated" with shell beds, some thin, some thick. Pliocene shallow sea successions of Tuscany (Italy) are no exception to this and a go

7. From seagrass to mangrove, and back
(Past ecosystems/Mangrove forest)

..., and that tropical species are linked in complex ways. A special issue of the Bulletin of Marine Science is now dedicated to the topic of linkages between mangrove habitats, fishes, fi...

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

... and mangals: their climatic and biogeographic variability. In Bosence D.W.J. & Allison P.A., eds., Marine Palaeoenvironmental Analysis from fossils. Geological Society Special Pubblication 83,...

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

...p to 2000 m) and rather continuous, covering the Messinian-Pliestocene interval with mostly shallow water marine facies, but also with some outer shelf-bathyal sediments in the lower Pliocene and some...

10. Sperm whales carcasses at the shelf break
(Past ecosystems/Whale-fall communities)

...Glover, A.G. 2006. A shallow-water whale-fall experiment in the north Atlantic. Les Cahiers de Biologie Marine 47, 385-389. Fujiwara, Y., Kawato, M., Yamamoto, T., Yamanaka, T., Sato-Okoshi, ...

11. What not to do with a beached whale
(Past ecosystems/Whale-fall communities)

...s than the ones you solve, it could be transported offshore where it came from, to the benefit of shallow marine necton, benthos and bacteria and of inland scientists interested in whale-fall ecosyste...

12. Whale-fall bivalves
(Past ecosystems/Whale-fall communities)

... Smith, C.R. and A. R. Baco. 2003. The ecology of whale falls at the deep-sea floor. Oceanography and Marine Biology: an Annual Review 41: 311-354.   ...

13. Whale-fall communities on the shelf
(Past ecosystems/Whale-fall communities)

...Royal Society B 273: 2625-2631. Smith, C. 2006. Bigger is Better: The Role of Whales as Detritus in Marine Ecosystems. In James Estes, ed., Whales, Whaling and Marine Ecosystems, University of C...