The Solnhofen Limestone

• The Solnhofen Limestone
• Solnhofen crustacean
• Solnhofen limulid (horseshoe crab)
• A Solnhofen butterfly. UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology.
• Solnhofen fish. Paul Olsen's Earthscape site.
• Archaeopteryx, from Nicholas Geist's site at Sonoma State University, California.
• Berlin specimen of Archaeopteryx Paul Olsen's Earthscape site.

The Fossils of Liaoning Province, China

• Location of Liaoning fossils. From the Peabody Museum, Yale.
• Fish
• Feathered juvenile dromaeosaur. Natural History magazine.
• Feathered juvenile dromaeosaur Natural History magazine.
• Sinosauropteryx. From the Peabody Museum, Yale.
• Sinosauropteryx skull with teeth. From the Peabody Museum, Yale.
• Juvenile Sinosauropteryx. From the Peabody Museum, Yale.
• Microraptor. BBC News OnLine.
• Protarchaeopteryx. From the Peabody Museum, Yale.
• Caudipteryx. From the Peabody Museum, Yale.
• Caudipteryx tail with feathers. From the Peabody Museum, Yale.
• But Archaeoraptor was a fake. BBC News OnLine.
• Confuciusornis, an Early Cretaceous bird from China. (It has DISPLAY feathers!)
• Confuciusornis
• Jeholornis, colored painting. From Science commentary.
• Jeholornis, seeds in gut. From Science commentary.
• Oldest marsupial, Sinodelphys. National Geographic News
• Eomaia, oldest relative of placental mammals National Geographic News

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• A pterosaur embryo inside a pterosaur egg. Nature news service, June 10, 2004.

Fossils from Messel

• Messel horse
• A fossil of a pregnant early horse from the Eocene of Messel. BBC News OnLine, November 2001.
• Alternative image, Bonn University.
• Pholidocercus. University of Bonn.
• Bat from Messel

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Amber

• Amber, "Nature's transparent tomb" , from a neat Web site, Wayne's Word at Palomar College.
• Special exhibit of amber at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
• Images of Insects in Amber
• World of Amber
• Fossil spider silk.

Trace Fossils

• A fossil burrow. Figure 2.3; photograph from National Park Service.
• Trail of a Limulus
• Climactichnites, a Cambrian track.
• worm tracks, Silurian.
• U-shaped worm burrow, Triassic
• Asteriacites, markings associated with sea stars
• Lumbricaria, trail of worm droppings from Solnhofen.

Coprolites

• T. rex coprolite From the USGS

Earth's Oldest Cells

• Rocks from Isua, Greenland BBC News OnLine.
• Warrawoona cells
• Microfossils from the Apex Chert. From J. William Schopf, UCLA; Astrobiology site.
• Microfossil from the Apex Chert
• Possible cells from seafloor lava, aged about 3.5 GaCavities that look like borings in volcanic glass that are made by bacteria today: but at 3.5 billion years ago!? The paper is in Science 304, 578-581, with comment, p. 503, so it won't be freely available on the Web for several months (but see images below). When it is, it will be here. This discovery may be unlikely, but it's not impossible!
• The pillow lavas from which the fossils came BBC News OnLine.
• Microbe recovered from rock BBC News OnLine.

Stromatolites

• Stromatolite locality, Archaean of Western Australia. Geological Survey of Western Australia.
• Stromatolite stratigraphy, Archaean of Western Australia. Geological Survey of Western Australia.
• 3D preservation of Archaean stromatolites, Western Australia. Geological Survey of Western Australia.
• Modern stromatolites at Shark Bay, Australia. Figure 2.8; photograph courtesy of Paul Hoffman, Harvard University.
• Modern stromatolites at Shark Bay, Australia.
• Modern stromatolites, Bahamas.
• Modern stromatolites, Bahamas
• Proterozoic stromatolites from Great Slave Lake, Canada, about 2 b.y. old.. Figure 2.11; photograph courtesy of Paul Hoffman, Harvard University.
• The Warrawoona stromatolite from North Pole, Western Australia.
• Diorama of Archaean, based on Western Australia geology
• Early Archaean stromatolite from the Fig Tree formation, South Africa, Figure 2.9; photo courtesy of Gary Byerly, Louisiana State University.
• Layering in a stromatolite
• Fossil cyanobacterium, Bitter Springs Chert. Tim Patterson's site.

RC TO SORT:

• Dinosaur Graveyards
• Paleontologist Profiles
• Geologic time scale, and dating fossils
• Archaean life
• BIF and the Oxygen Revolution
• Earth's oldest crystal.

Page last revised November 17, 2004.

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