A History Of Life

1. Strange Science
(Theory of evolution/Earth Science matters)

Strange Science is a spectacular website, a resource where to find people, illustrations and a thousand small facts that made the history of Paleontology. Isn't small facts that usually start

2. Kimmeridge Clays and the Sea of Britain
(Paleontological sites/Jurassic Europe)

...sic enthusiast with the words and the skills to capture rock and fossil lovers around the world. His website has wonderful pictures on the geology of the South Central English coast (Dorset, Hampshi...

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

Shelfal successions in collisional settings can be the site of quick burial of shelly remains, though with some lateral displacement from the original habitats (Dominici & Zuschin 2005). Paleoge

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

The hills around San Miniato, Pisa District in Tuscany, are a paleontological heritage. Within an alluvial to open shelf, cyclothemic succession, a testimonial of early late Pliocene Milankovitch-ty

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

... National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris to start a project for the restoration of the classical Grignon site. Due to the long time necessary to carry out the work, and for the great expenses to clean ...

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

... lobopods) and shelly remains of various kinds, in a taphonomically diverse association. Two ordovician sites from Manitoba, Canada (localities William Lake and Airport Cove), have yielded remains of ...

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

...ere.   The second reason is the vertebrate fauna. The province of Pisa hosts two sites that have yielded abundant and diverrse vertebrates, namely Montopoli , reknown for its up...

8. New species of sea anemone at 3000 m
(Past ecosystems/Whale-fall communities)

...ozoa: Actinaria) froma whale fall. Journal of Natural History, 41, 1-11. Go to Ohio University Website ...

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

...enrichment opportunist stage (Osedax, Ophryotrocha, etc.) left no recognizable trace within the fossil site. However, the existence of remnants of the third and sulphophilic stage leave little doub...

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

... bivalve Vesicomyia or the gastropod Provanna, are deep-water, bathyal forms, exclusive to organic-rich sites. The question is whether or not there are similar shelfal benthic specialists adapted to e...

11. Joomla! License Guidelines
(Static Content)

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12. Paleontological sites
(Section List)

Paleontological sites of interest: how-to-get-there, what-was-there, what-is-there, links