Fossil Ecosystems of North America
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Fossil Ecosystems of North America

A Guide to the Sites and their Extraordinary Biotas

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eBook - PDF

Fossil Ecosystems of North America

A Guide to the Sites and their Extraordinary Biotas

About this book

Most major recent advances in understanding the history of life on Earth have been through the study of exceptionally well preserved biotas (Fossil-Lagerstätten). These are windows on the history of life on Earth and can provide a fairly complete picture of the evolution of ecosystems through time. This book follows the success of Evolution of Fossil Ecosystems by the same authors which covered Fossil-Lagerstätten around the world. The success of the first book prompted this new book which draws on four localities from the original book and adds another ten, all located in North America.

Following an introduction to Fossil-Lagerstätten, each chapter deals with a single fossil locality. Each chapter contains a brief introduction placing the Lagerstätte in an evolutionary context; there then follows 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 Lagerstätten of a similar age and/or environment. At the end of the book is an Appendix listing museums in which to see exhibitions of fossils from each locality and suggestions for visiting the sites.

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Information

Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2008
Print ISBN
9781138424081
eBook ISBN
9781840765076
Edition
1
Topic
Physical Sciences
Subtopic
Biology
17
The 
Gunflint 
Chert
5
Domed 
stromatolitic
bioherm 
growing 
on 
the
Archean 
erosional 
surface, 
near
Kakabeka 
Falls 
Provincial 
Park,
Ontario.
5
6
Circular 
stromatolitic
bioherm 
in 
Gunflint 
Chert, 
on
the 
north 
shore 
of 
Lake
Superior 
opposite 
Flint 
Island,
near 
Schreiber, 
Ontario.
6
7
Mary 
Ellen 
Jasper, 
a
stromatolitic 
red 
chert 
from
the 
Mesabi 
Iron 
Range 
of
Minnesota, 
equivalent 
to 
the
Gunflint 
Chert
MM.
7
18
The 
Gunflint 
Chert
10
The 
star-shaped 
bacteria
Eoastrion
PC. 
Filaments
1.5
micron 
diameter.
10
9
The 
spherical 
bacteria
Huroniospora 
with
filamentous 
bacteria
Gunflintia
 
PC. 
Spheres
116 
micron 
diameter.
9
8
The 
filamentous 
bacteria
Gunflintia 
with 
spherical
bacteria 
Huroniospora
 
PC.
Filaments 
15 
micron
diameter.
8

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Preface
  5. Abbreviations
  6. Introduction
  7. Chapter 1 The Gunflint Chert
  8. Chapter 2 Mistaken Point
  9. Chapter 3 The Burgess Shale
  10. Chapter 4 Beecher's Trilobite Bed
  11. Chapter 5 The Bertie Waterlime
  12. Chapter 6 Gilboa
  13. Chapter 7 Mazon Creek
  14. Chapter 8 The Chinle Group
  15. Chapter 9 The Morrison Formation
  16. Chapter 10 The Hell Creek Formation
  17. Chapter 11 The Green River Formation
  18. Chapter 12 Florissant
  19. Chapter 13 Dominican Amber
  20. Chapter 14 Rancho La Brea
  21. Appendix: Museums and Site Visits
  22. Back Cover