A History Of Life

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

...ving credit to a slower natural selection than previously thought by advocates of the saltatory change. References Friedman M. 2008 - The evolutionary origin of flatfish asymmetry. Nature ...

2. The forgotten ingredient
(Theory of evolution/Earth Science matters)

...ations Charles Darwin would not have conceived a theory of evolution by natural selection.   References Burchfield J.D. 1975 - Lord Kelvin and the Age of the Earth. University o...

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

...tter understanding of the processes responsable of the lateral displacement (Dominici 2004). References Dominici S. 2001. Taphonomy and paleoecology of shallow marine macrofossi...

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

...urfaces to the South, towards Guardia de Tremp, you track sharp-based shelfal sandstones of the Figols Group (references in Waehry 1999) to proximal settings. And with fair weather the sight can be wo...

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

... Europe and the world now can get to know what came from where, and what it means to when.   References Gely J.P. & Lorenz C. 1991. Analyse séquentielle de l'Eocène et d...

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

... more on the concept of ravinement surface, check out the original work by Demarest & Kraft (1987). References: Benvenuti M., Bertini A., Conti C. and Dominici S. 2007 . Integrated ana...

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

...n; community ecology and connectivity; mangrove-fishery linkages; and disturbance and restoration. References Koenig C.C., Coleman F.C., Eklund A., Schull J. & Ueland J. 2007. Ma...

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

...ests is from the mollusks that lived in it. We need more data from other and more ancient Nypa coasts. References Dominici S. & Kowalke T. 2007. Depositional dynamics and the record ...

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

...specimens, one living epifaunally on whale bones above the the sediment-water surface, the other below. References Dahlgren, T.G., Wiklund, H., Källström, B., Lundälv, T., Smith, C.R., Glo...

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

... created. Does this belong to the reef stage hypothesized by authors (Smith & Baco 2003)? References: Smith, C.R. and A. R. Baco. 2003. The ecology of whale falls at the dee...

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

...mparison could be extended to benthic assemblages from seagrass and kelp beds.   References: Kiel, S. and J.L. Goedert. 2006. Deep-sea food bonanzas: early Cenozoic ...