Fossil Ecosystems of North America - A Guide to the Sites and Their Extraordinary Biotas

List of contents

The Gunflint Chert. Mistaken Point. Burgess Shale. Beecher’s Triolbite Bed. The Bertie Waterlime. Gilboa. Mazon Creek. The Chinle Group. The Morrison Formation. The Hell Creek Formation. The Green River Formation. Florissant. Dominican Amber. Rancho La Brea. Appendix: Museums and Site Visits.

About the author

John Nudds, Paul Selden

Summary

Each chapter deals with a single fossil locality, with a brief introduction placing the Lagerstatte in an evolutionary context, then a history of study of the locality; the background sedimentology, stratigraphy and palaeoenvironment; a description of the biota; discussion of the palaeoecology, and a comparison with other Lagerstatten.

Product details

• Authors: John Nudds, Nudds John, Selden, Paul Selden, Paul Nudds Selden, Selden Paul
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781138424081
• ISBN: 978-1-138-42408-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geology; SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geology, Geology, geomorphology and the lithosphere, Geology & The Lithosphere