Burgess Shale fossils The Burgess Shale is an exceptional Middle Cambrian age (about 540 million years ago) fossil locality located in Yoho National Park in the Rocky Mountains, near Field, British Columbia, Canada. The locality is special because of the soft-bodied preservation of a wide diversity of fossil invertebrate animals. The locality has been intensely studied since its discovery in ...

The plants and animals found in concretions recovered from the Francis Creek Shale are some of the most exciting and important fossils that have been found in the state of Illinois. These fossils are known as the Mazon Creek fossils, because they were originally found along Mazon Creek in northeastern Illinois. ...

Fossil Butte National Monument Located in Kemmerer, WY TRAVEL BASICS - CAMPING - LODGING ACTIVITIES - FACILITIES - FEES/PERMITS (NPS Photo) IN BRIEF This 50-million year old lake bed is one of the richest fossil localities in the world. Recorded in limestone are dynamic and complete paleoecosystems that spanned two million years. Preservation is so complete that it allows for detailed study of ...

Digital Burgess Photo Album Now Posted! Digital Burgess Reviews Now Posted! Program Participants Background Discussion Attending Full Program Now Posted! Proud sponsors and supporters of Digital Burgess See the winner of our VRML Cambrian Creatures Competition Biota.org Click here to experience a visit to the Burgess Shale Biota.org 1998, send any comments to our Webmaster Burgess photo courtesy ...

PALAEOBOTANICAL RESEARCH GROUP UNIVERSITY M NSTER THE RHYNIE CHERT AND ITS FLORA INDEX I. Introduction II. The Rhynie Chert Flora III. Rhynia and Aglaophyton IV. Vesicular Arbuscular Mycorrhizae V. The Alternation of Generations in Early Land Plants VI. Growth Forms of Aglaophyton and Rhynia VII. Nothia and Horneophyton VIII. Asteroxylon and Life Strategies of Early Land Plants IX. Fungi and ...

Localities of the Pleistocene: The La Brea Tar Pits When this photograph was taken around 1910, the location depicted was described as the Salt Creek oilfields, 7 miles west of Los Angeles. Today, this spot is in the middle of downtown Los Angeles, eloquent testimony to urban sprawl, but the pools and deposits of asphalt still remain. For these are the La Brea tar pits, containing one of the ...

Localities of the Jurassic: The Solnhofen Limestone of Germany Towards the end of the Jurassic, about 155 milion years ago, a warm shallow sea studded with islands covered much of what is now Germany. Sponges and corals grew on rises in this sea, forming reefs that divided up parts of this sea into isolated lagoons. These lagoons were cut off from the ocean and also from terrestrial runoff.

Petrified Forest National Park and Painted Desert near the Grand Canyon of Arizona provides camping hiking and beautiful tourist location with hiking, camping, ancient Indian ruins, prehistoric man, dinosaurs, fossils, petroglyphs ...

Geological field guide to Lower Jurassic strata (Lias) of Lyme Regis, Dorset, England, Geology field trip guide ...

Localities of the Eocene: The Green River Formation One of the most important fossil sites for understanding the Eocene is found at Green River, located in western Colorado, eastern Utah and southwestern Wyoming in the United States. During the Eocene, this region was located at much the same latitude it is today, though global climate was more equable. Therefore, the climate in which the ...

Hallelujah! There it is! I shouted as the Triassic cycad leaf sprang from the rock.

Background Paleontology and Digital Biota I. The Burgess Shale and other Paleontology Resources Olenoides serratus Marrella splendens Anomalocaris frontal appendage/claw Vauxia gracilenta Ottoia Tuzoia Fossil images courtesy Andrew MacRae 1995 Andrew MacRae Andrew MacRae's Pages on the Burgess Shale Cambrian Explosion exhibit at the Brevard Zoo Brevard Cambrian Organisms by Kerry Clark U.C.

Mary Anning When Mary Anning was just a year old, a traveling circus passed through the village where she lived, and everyone flocked outdoors to see it. A severe thunderstorm developed, and the woman holding Anning was struck by lightning and killed. Anning survived and, according to her family, became much smarter and livelier as a result. Her intelligence served her family well, as she began ...

The sauropod bones had to be gotten out before the reservoir rose and flooded them.

The best-preserved small lizard from the Late Jurassic yet found in North America leapt out of the rock before our eyes!