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CRC Press
288 Pages
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CRC Press
304 Pages
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CRC Press
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Evolution of Fossil Ecosystems describes all of the main Fossil Lagerstätten (sites of exceptional fossil preservation) from around the world in a chronological order. It covers the history of research, stratigraphy and taphonomy, main faunal and floral elements, and the palaeoecology of each site and gives a comparison with coeval sites around the world. It includes all of the well-known... Read more
Acknowledgements, Abbreviations, Foreword, Introduction, Chapter 1 Ediacara, Chapter 2 The Burgess Shale, Chapter 3 Chengjiang, Chapter 4 The Soom Shale, Chapter 5 The Herefordshire Nodules, Chapter 6 The Hunsru¨ck Slate, Chapter 7 The Rhynie Chert, Chapter 8 Mazon Creek, Chapter 9 Karoo, Chapter 10 Gre`s a` Voltzia, Chapter 11 The Holzmaden Shale, Chapter 12 The Morrison Formation, Chapter 13 The Solnhofen Limestone, Chapter 14 The Jehol Group, Chapter 15 El Montsec and Las Hoyas, Chapter 16 The Santana and Crato Formations, Chapter 17 Grube Messel, Chapter 18 The White River Group, Chapter 19 Baltic Amber, Chapter 20 Rancho La Brea, References
Biography
Paul Selden, John Nudds
