A History Of Life

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

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

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

...exposed in some little-known papers, seminar to the understanding of density-driven (hyperpicnal) flows in shallow waters (Mutti et al. 2003 ).       &n...

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

...treault, D.K. & Stott, C.A. 2007. Eramosa Lagerstätte—Exceptionally preserved soft-bodied biotas with shallow-marine shelly and bioturbating organisms (Silurian, Ontario, Canada). Geology 35, 87...

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

...ons 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 testground for...

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

...ion is thick (up 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 Pl...

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

Finally some evidence on the sulphophilic stage of whale-fall communities at relatively shallow depths. The ecosystem that develops around a carcass of a large cetacean undergoes four successional sta

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

...e troubles 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...

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

...es are reasonably well-known, very little is published on whale-fall communities from shelfal depths. What shallow-water species would partecipate to such a banquet? Are there any shelfal specialists ...