Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

New York : Columbia University Press, [2002], ©2002.

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Additional Authors

Bottjer, David J.

Description

xi, 403 pages : illustrations, 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

• Taphonomy
• Marine animals, Fossil

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Fossil-Lagerstatten: Jewels of the Fossil Record / David J. Bottjer, Walter Etter, James W. Hagadorn and Carol M. Tang -- 2. Enigmatic Ediacara Fossils: Ancestors or Aliens? / David J. Bottjer -- 3. Chengjiang: Early Record of the Cambrian Explosion / James W. Hagadorn -- 4. Burgess Shale: Cambrian Explosion in Full Bloom / James W. Hagadorn -- 5. Burgess Shale-Type Localities: The Global Picture / James W. Hagadorn -- 6. Orsten Deposits from Sweden: Miniature Late Cambrian Arthropods / Carol M. Tang -- 7. Beecher's Trilobite Bed: Ordovician Pyritization for the Other Half of the Trilobite / Walter Etter -- 8. Hunsruck Slate: Widespread Pyritization of a Devonian Fauna / Walter Etter -- 9. Bear Gulch: An Exceptional Upper Carboniferous Plattenkalk / James W. Hagadorn -- 10. Mazon Creek: Preservation in Late Paleozoic Deltaic and Marginal Marine Environments / Stephen A. Schellenberg --
• 11. Gres a Voltzia: Preservation in Early Mesozoic Deltaic and Marginal Marine Environments / Walter Etter -- 12. Monte San Giorgio: Remarkable Triassic Marine Vertebrates / Walter Etter -- 13. Berlin-Ichthyosaur: Preserving Some of the Earth's Largest Marine Vertebrates / David J. Bottjer -- 14. Osteno: Jurassic Preservation to the Cellular Level / Carol M. Tang -- 15. Posidonia Shale: Germany's Jurassic Marine Park / Walter Etter and Carol M. Tang -- 16. La Voulte-Sur-Rhone: Exquisite Cephalopod Preservation / Walter Etter -- 17. Oxford Clay: England's Jurassic Marine Park / Carol M. Tang -- 18. Solnhofen: Plattenkalk Preservation with Archaeopteryx / Walter Etter -- 19. Smoky Hill Chalk: Spectacular Cretaceous Marine Fauna / David J. Bottjer -- 20. Monte Bolca: An Eocene Fishbowl / Carol M. Tang.

ISBN

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

LCCN

2001042434

OCLC

• ocm47650949
• SCSB-4323819

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries