Website Search
Find information on spaces, staff, and services.
Catalog Search
Books
Reading and writing of the fossil record : preservational pathways to exceptional fossilization : presented as a Paleontological Society short course at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America, Vancouver, British Columbia, October 18, 2014
- Available as
- Physical
Details
Checking for availability...
- Creator
- convened by Marc Laflamme, James D. Schiffbauer, Simon A.F. Darroch
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
-
- [Bouldor, CO] : Paleontological Society, [2014]
- ©2014
- Physical Details
-
- xii, 313 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 28 cm
- OCLC
- ocn894574613
- "October 2014"--Page preceding title page.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Reading and writing of the fossil record : preservational pathways to exceptional fossilization / Marc Laflamme, James D. Schiffbauer, and Simon A.F. Darroch -- Konservat-Lagerstätten 40 years on : the exceptional becomes mainstream / Derek E.G. Briggs -- Silicification / Susan H. Butts -- Pyritization of soft tissues in the fossil record : an overview / Una C. Farrell -- Exceptional fossil conservation through phosphatization / James D. Schiffbauer, Adam F. Wallace, Jesse Broce, and Shuhai Xiao -- The role of biology in the fossilization of embryos and other soft-bodied organisms : microbial biofilms and Lagerstätten / Rudolf A. Raff and Elizabeth C. Raff -- Of time and taphonomy : preservation and its distribution in space and time / Robert R. Gaines -- Concretions as agents of soft-tissue preservation : a review / Victoria E. McCoy -- Amber / Conrad Labandeira -- The exceptional preservation of interesting and informative biomolecules / Roger E. Summons -- The exceptional preservation of plant fossils : a review of taphonomic pathways and biases in the fossil record / Emma R. Locatelli -- Experimental decay of soft tissues / Robert S. Sansom -- Distinguishing biology from geology in soft-tissue preservation / John A. Cunningham, Philip C.J. Donoghue, and Stefan Bengtson -- Late Proterozoic-Early Phanerozoic 'taphonomic windows' : the environmental and temporal distribution of recurrent modes of exceptional preservation / Patrick J. Orr