By Paul Selden,John Nudds

ISBN-10: 1840760885

ISBN-13: 9781840760880

so much significant contemporary advances in knowing the historical past of existence in the world were throughout the research of enormously good preserved biotas (Fossil-Lagerstätten). those are home windows at the heritage of existence in the world and will supply a pretty whole photograph of the evolution of ecosystems via time. This booklet follows the good fortune of Evolution of Fossil Ecosystems through an identical authors which lined Fossil-Lagerstätten all over the world. The good fortune of the 1st publication triggered this new e-book which attracts on 4 localities from the unique ebook and provides one other ten, all positioned in North America.

Following an advent to Fossil-Lagerstätten, each one bankruptcy bargains with a unmarried fossil locality. every one bankruptcy includes a short advent putting the Lagerstätte in an evolutionary context; there then follows a background of analysis of the locality; the heritage sedimentology, stratigraphy and palaeoenvironment; an outline of the biota; dialogue of the palaeoecology, and a comparability with different Lagerstätten of an analogous age and/or setting. on the finish of the e-book is an Appendix directory museums during which to work out exhibitions of fossils from each one locality and recommendations for traveling the sites.

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