A History Of Life

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

...tcomes of shell transport. 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 bioge...

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

...ontological heritage. Within an alluvial to open shelf, cyclothemic succession, a testimonial of early late Pliocene Milankovitch-type sea level cycles , lie several shell beds of different nature (Be...

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

...e 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 good test...

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

...rval 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.   ...

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

The recovery of a varied benthic assemblage associated with a Pliocene balaenid at Orciano Pisano, in Tuscany, shows how shelfal fishes and invertebrates may gather around a whale-carcass following

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

Whale-fall communities have been studied since the eighties, attracting ecologists and paleoecologists alike. Incredible findings of mouthless-worms sucking fat from whale bones and a variety