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Terrestrial conservation Lagerstätten : windows into the evolution of life on land / edited by Nicholas C. Fraser, National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh and Hans-Dieter Sues, Smithsonian Institution, Washington.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Paleontological excavations.
- Paleobiogeography.
- Paleoecology.
- Evolution (Biology).
- Paleontology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (367 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (chiefly color)
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh, Scotland : Dunedin Academic Press Ltd, [2017]
- Summary:
- A collection of papers reviewing selected conservation Lagerstätten for terrestrial animals and plants throughout the Phanerozoic worldwide. The synthesis details recent progress in documenting the biodiversity of such extraordinary fossil deposits and elucidating the geological conditions for and biogeochemical processes behind their formation.
- Contents:
- 1. The Rhynie and Windyfield cherts, early Devonian, Rhynie, Scotland / Nigel H. Trewin and Hans Kerp
- 2. The East Kirkton Lagerstätte : a window onto early Carboniferous land ecosystems / Jennifer A. Clack
- 3. Triassic life in an inland lake basin of the warm-temperature biome : the Madygen Lagerstätte (southwest Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia) / Sebastian Voigt, Michael Buchwitz, Jan Fischer, Ilja Kogan, Philippe Moisan, Jörg W. Schneider, Frederik Spindler, Andreas Brosig, Marvin Preusse, Frank Scholze and Ulf Linnemann
- 4. The Solite Quarry - a window into life by a late Triassic lake margin / Nicholas C. Fraser, David A. Grimaldi, Brian J. Axsmith, Andrew B. Heckert, Cynthia Liutkus-Pierce, Dena Smith, Alton C. Dooley Jr.
- 5. The Yanliao Biota : a trove of exceptionally preserved middle-late Jurassic terrestrial life forms / Xing Xu, Zhonghe Zhou, Corwin Sullivan, and Yuan Wang
- 6. The Jehol Biota : an exceptional window into early Cretaceous terrestrial ecosystems / Zhonghe Zhou, Yuan Wang, Xing Xu, and Dong Ren
- 7. The Santana Formation / David M. Martill and Paulo M. Brito
- 8. The Messel Pit Fossil Site / Stephen F.K. Schaal
- 9. Extraordinary Lagerstätten in amber, with particular reference to the Cretaceous of Burma / David A. Grimaldi and Andrew J. Ross.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-78046-583-1
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