Research Catalog

Title

Exceptional fossil preservation : a unique view on the evolution of marine life / edited by David J. Bottjer ... [et al.].

Publication

New York : Columbia University Press, c2002.

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Additional Authors

Bottjer, David J.

Description

xi, 403 p. : ill., maps; 26 cm.

Series Statement

Critical moments and perspectives in Earth history and paleobiology

Uniform Title

Critical moments in paleobiology and earth history series.

Subjects

• Marine animals, Fossil
• Taphonomy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Fossil-lagerstätten: jewels of the fossil record / David J. Bottjer ... [et al.] -- Enigmatic Ediacara fossils: ancestors or aliens? / David J. Bottjer -- Chengjiang: early record of the Cambrian explosion / James W. Hagadorn -- Burgess Shale: Cambrian explosion in full bloom / James W. Hagadorn -- Burgess Shale-type localities: the global picture / James W. Hagadorn -- Orsten deposits from Sweden: miniature late Cambrian arthropods / Carol M. Tang -- Beecher's trilobite bed: Ordovician pyritization for the other half of the trilobite / Walter Etter -- Hunsrück Slate: widespread pyritization of a Devonian fauna / Walter Etter -- Bear Gulch: an exceptional Upper Carboniferous plattenkalk / James W. Hagadorn -- Mazon Creek: preservation in late Paleozoic deltaic and marginal marine environments / Stephen A. Schellenberg -- Grès à Voltzia: preservation in early Mesozoic deltaic and marginal marine environments / Walter Etter -- Monte San Giorgio: remarkable Triassic marine vertebrates / Walter Etter -- Berlin-Ichthyosaur: preserving some of the earth's largest marine vertebrates / David J. Bottjer -- Osteno: Jurassic preservation to the cellular level / Carol M. Tang -- Posidonia Shale: Germany's Jurassic marine park / Walter Etter and Carol M. Tang -- La Voulte-sur-Rhône: exquisite cephalopod preservation / Walter Etter -- Oxford Clay: England's Jurassic marine park / Carol M. Tang -- Solnhofen: plattenkalk preservation with Archaeopteryx / Walter Etter -- Smoky Hill Chalk: spectacular Cretaceous marine fauna / David J. Bottjer -- Monte Bolca: an Eocene fishbowl / Carol M. Tang.

Call Number

JFF 04-228

ISBN

• 0231102542 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0231102550 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2001042434

OCLC

47650949

Title

Exceptional fossil preservation : a unique view on the evolution of marine life / edited by David J. Bottjer ... [et al.].

Imprint

New York : Columbia University Press, c2002.

Series

Critical moments and perspectives in Earth history and paleobiology

Critical moments in paleobiology and earth history series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Bottjer, David J.

Research Call Number

JFF 04-228