A History Of Life

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

...ry geologists, bear witness of this. In the Tremp-Graus Basin, strata can be actually walked on from the sites where ancient benthic organisms lived to where they finally got buried. ...

2. 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

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

... for non-cemented sands. There species richness is also high, although values are lower than at Lutetian sites, signaling the decline in global temperature that was to bring to the Oligocene icehouse ...

4. 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...

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

...here.   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 u...

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

...e 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 ...

7. Paleontological sites
(Section List)

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