Lagerstätte, the Glossary
A Fossil-Lagerstätte (from Lager 'storage, lair' Stätte 'place'; plural Lagerstätten) is a sedimentary deposit that exhibits extraordinary fossils with exceptional preservation—sometimes including preserved soft tissues.[1]
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745 relations: Acanthomorpha, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, Actinopterygii, Acutiramus, Adolf Seilacher, Aeronian, African Entomology, African Invertebrates, Agardhfjellet Formation, Agnostida, Agua Nueva Formation, Aichi Prefecture, Alabama, Alberta, Albian, Alcheringa (journal), Alcoota, Algeria, Allegheny Group, Alps, Alum, Aluminosilicate, Amber, American Journal of Botany, American lion, Ammonoidea, Amniote, Amphibian, Amphipoda, Anacleto Formation, Ancient DNA, Angeac-Charente bonebed, Animal, Anisian, Annales de Paléontologie, Anoxic event, Antelope County, Nebraska, Anti-Atlas, Apatite, Appalachia, Appendage, Aptian, Apulia, Aquilolamna, Aquitanian (stage), Arachnid, Archaeopteryx, Arctodus, Ardèche, Arthropitys, ... Expand index (695 more) »
Acanthomorpha
Acanthomorpha (meaning "thorn-shaped") is an extraordinarily diverse taxon of teleost fishes with spiny fin rays.
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Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica is a quarterly peer-reviewed open access scientific journal of paleontology and paleobiology.
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Actinopterygii
Actinopterygii, members of which are known as ray-finned fish or actinopterygians, is a class of bony fish that comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species.
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Acutiramus
Acutiramus is a genus of giant predatory eurypterid, an extinct group of aquatic arthropods.
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Adolf Seilacher
Adolf "Dolf" Seilacher (24 February 1925 – 26 April 2014) was a German palaeontologist who worked in evolutionary and ecological palaeobiology for over 60 years.
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Aeronian
In the geologic timescale, the Aeronian is an age of the Llandovery Epoch of the Silurian Period of the Paleozoic Era of the Phanerozoic Eon that began 440.8 ± 1.2 Ma and ended 438.5 ± 1.1 Ma (million years ago).
African Entomology
African Entomology is a scientific journal published by the Entomological Society of Southern Africa.
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African Invertebrates
African Invertebrates is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal that covers the taxonomy, systematics, biogeography, ecology, conservation, and palaeontology of Afrotropical invertebrates, whether terrestrial, freshwater, or marine.
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Agardhfjellet Formation
The Agardhfjellet Formation is a geologic formation in Svalbard, Norway. Lagerstätte and Agardhfjellet Formation are lagerstätten.
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Agnostida
Agnostida are an order of extinct arthropods which have classically been seen as a group of highly modified trilobites, though some recent research has doubted this placement.
Agua Nueva Formation
The Agua Nueva Formation is a geologic formation in Mexico.
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Aichi Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshū.
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Alabama
Alabama is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.
Alberta
Alberta is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.
Albian
The Albian is both an age of the geologic timescale and a stage in the stratigraphic column.
Alcheringa (journal)
Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of palaeontology and its ramifications into the Earth and biological sciences, especially the disciplines of taxonomy, biostratigraphy, micropalaeontology, vertebrate palaeontology, palaeobotany, palynology, palaeobiology, palaeoanatomy, palaeoecology, biostratinomy, biogeography, chronobiology, biogeochemistry and palichnology.
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Alcoota
The Alcoota Fossil Beds are an important paleontological Lagerstätte in the Northern Territory of Australia located on Alcoota Station in the locality of Anmatjere about north-east of Alice Springs in the Central Australia region.
Algeria
Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia; to the east by Libya; to the southeast by Niger; to the southwest by Mali, Mauritania, and Western Sahara; to the west by Morocco; and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea.
Allegheny Group
The Allegheny Group, often termed the Allegheny Formation, is a Pennsylvanian-age geological unit in the Appalachian Plateau.
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Alps
The Alps are one of the highest and most extensive mountain ranges in Europe, stretching approximately across eight Alpine countries (from west to east): Monaco, France, Switzerland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria and Slovenia.
Alum
An alum is a type of chemical compound, usually a hydrated double sulfate salt of aluminium with the general formula, such that is a monovalent cation such as potassium or ammonium.
Aluminosilicate
Aluminosilicate refers to materials containing anionic Si-O-Al linkages.
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Amber
Amber is fossilized tree resin.
American Journal of Botany
The American Journal of Botany is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal which covers all aspects of plant biology.
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American lion
The American lion (Panthera atrox, with the species name meaning "savage" or "cruel", also called the North American lion) is an extinct pantherine cat native to North America during the Late Pleistocene from around 130,000 to 12,800 years ago.
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Ammonoidea
Ammonoids are extinct spiral shelled cephalopods comprising the subclass Ammonoidea.
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Amniote
Amniotes are tetrapod vertebrate animals belonging to the clade Amniota, a large group that comprises the vast majority of living terrestrial and semiaquatic vertebrates.
Amphibian
Amphibians are ectothermic, anamniotic, four-limbed vertebrate animals that constitute the class Amphibia.
Amphipoda
Amphipoda is an order of malacostracan crustaceans with no carapace and generally with laterally compressed bodies.
Anacleto Formation
The Anacleto Formation is a geologic formation with outcrops in the Argentine Patagonian provinces of Mendoza, Río Negro, and Neuquén. Lagerstätte and Anacleto Formation are lagerstätten.
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Ancient DNA
Ancient DNA (aDNA) is DNA isolated from ancient sources (typically specimens, but also environmental DNA).
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Angeac-Charente bonebed
The Angeac-Charente bonebed is a fossil deposit located near Angeac-Charente in western France.
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Animal
Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the biological kingdom Animalia.
Anisian
In the geologic timescale, the Anisian is the lower stage or earliest age of the Middle Triassic series or epoch and lasted from million years ago until million years ago.
Annales de Paléontologie
Annales de Paléontologie is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering paleontology.
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Anoxic event
An anoxic event describes a period wherein large expanses of Earth's oceans were depleted of dissolved oxygen (O2), creating toxic, euxinic (anoxic and sulfidic) waters.
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Antelope County, Nebraska
Antelope County is a county located in the U.S. state of Nebraska.
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Anti-Atlas
The Anti-Atlas, also known as Lesser Atlas or Little Atlas, is a mountain range in Morocco, a part of the Atlas Mountains in the northwest of Africa.
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Apatite
Apatite is a group of phosphate minerals, usually hydroxyapatite, fluorapatite and chlorapatite, with high concentrations of OH−, F− and Cl− ion, respectively, in the crystal.
Appalachia
Appalachia is a geographic region located in the central and southern sections of the Appalachian Mountains of the eastern United States.
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Appendage
An appendage (or outgrowth) is an external body part, or natural prolongation, that protrudes from an organism's or microorganism's body.
Aptian
The Aptian is an age in the geologic timescale or a stage in the stratigraphic column.
Apulia
Apulia, also known by its Italian name Puglia, is a region of Italy, located in the southern peninsular section of the country, bordering the Adriatic Sea to the east, the Strait of Otranto and Ionian Sea to the southeast and the Gulf of Taranto to the south.
Aquilolamna
Aquilolamna is an extinct genus of shark-like elasmobranch from the Late Cretaceous (Turonian)-aged Agua Nueva Formation of Mexico.
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Aquitanian (stage)
The Aquitanian is, in the International Commission on Stratigraphy's (ICS) geologic timescale, the oldest age or lowest stage in the Miocene.
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Arachnid
Arachnids are arthropods in the class Arachnida of the subphylum Chelicerata.
Archaeopteryx
Archaeopteryx, sometimes referred to by its German name, "Urvogel" (Primeval Bird) is a genus of bird-like dinosaurs.
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Arctodus
Arctodus is an extinct genus of short-faced bear that inhabited North America during the Pleistocene (~2.5 Mya until 12,800 years ago).
Ardèche
Ardèche (Ardecha,; Ardecha) is a department in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Southeastern France.
Arthropitys
Arthropitys is an extinct genus of calamitacean equisetale.
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Ashfall Fossil Beds
The Ashfall Fossil Beds of Antelope County in northeastern Nebraska are rare fossil sites of the type called lagerstätten that, due to extraordinary local conditions, capture an ecological "snapshot" in time of a range of well-preserved fossilized organisms. Lagerstätte and Ashfall Fossil Beds are lagerstätten.
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Asselian
In the geologic timescale, the Asselian is the earliest geochronologic age or lowermost chronostratigraphic stage of the Permian.
Astraspis
Astraspis ('star shield') is an extinct, monotypic genus of primitive jawless fish from the Ordovician of Central North America including the Harding Sandstone of Colorado and Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming.
Atrasado Formation
The Atrasado Formation is a geologic formation in New Mexico.
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Auca Mahuevo
Auca Mahuevo is a Cretaceous lagerstätte in the eroded badlands of the Patagonian province of Neuquén, Argentina. Lagerstätte and Auca Mahuevo are lagerstätten.
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Austria
Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps.
Auvergne
Auvergne (Auvèrnhe or Auvèrnha) is a cultural region in central France.
Avalon explosion
The Avalon explosion, named from the Precambrian faunal trace fossils discovered on the Avalon Peninsula in Newfoundland, eastern Canada, is a proposed evolutionary radiation of prehistoric animals about 575 million years ago in the Ediacaran period, with the Avalon explosion being one of three eras grouped in this time period.
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Łódź Voivodeship
Łódź Voivodeship (Województwo łódzkie) is a voivodeship (province) of Poland.
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Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship
Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship (województwo świętokrzyskie), also known as Holy Cross Voivodeship, is a voivodeship (province) in southeastern Poland, in the historical region of Lesser Poland.
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Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg, commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France.
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Badlands
Badlands are a type of dry terrain where softer sedimentary rocks and clay-rich soils have been extensively eroded.
Bajocian
In the geologic timescale, the Bajocian is an age and stage in the Middle Jurassic.
Baltic amber
Baltic amber or succinite Is amber from the Baltic region, home of its largest known deposits. Lagerstätte and Baltic amber are lagerstätten.
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Barstow Formation
The Barstow Formation is a series of limestones, conglomerates, sandstones, siltstones and shales exposed in the Mojave Desert near Barstow in San Bernardino County, California. Lagerstätte and Barstow Formation are lagerstätten.
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Baru
Baru, sometimes referred to as the cleaver-headed crocodile, is an extinct genus of Australian mekosuchine crocodilian.
Bathonian
In the geologic timescale the Bathonian is an age and stage of the Middle Jurassic.
Bathypelagic zone
The bathypelagic zone or bathyal zone (from Greek βαθύς (bathýs), deep) is the part of the open ocean that extends from a depth of below the ocean surface.
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Batoidea
Batoidea is a superorder of cartilaginous fishes, commonly known as rays.
Baumberge
The Baumberge are the highest hills in the natural regions of Münsterland and Kernmünsterland with a maximum height of.
Bavaria
Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria, is a state in the southeast of Germany.
Bear Gulch Limestone
The Bear Gulch Limestone is a limestone-rich geological lens in central Montana, renowned for the quality of its late Mississippian-aged fossils. Lagerstätte and Bear Gulch Limestone are lagerstätten.
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Beecher's Trilobite Bed
Beecher's Trilobite Bed is a Konservat-Lagerstätte of Late Ordovician (Caradoc) age located within the Frankfort Shale in Cleveland's Glen, Oneida County, New York, USA. Lagerstätte and Beecher's Trilobite Bed are lagerstätten.
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Beecher's Trilobite type preservation
The preservational regime of Beecher's Trilobite Bed (Upper Ordovician) and other similar localities involves the replacement of soft tissues with pyrite, producing a three-dimensional fossil replicating the anatomy of the original organism. Lagerstätte and Beecher's Trilobite type preservation are lagerstätten.
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Beipiaosaurus
Beipiaosaurus is a genus of therizinosauroid theropod dinosaurs that lived in China during the Early Cretaceous in the Yixian Formation.
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Belarus
Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe.
Belgium
Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe.
Benthic zone
The benthic zone is the ecological region at the lowest level of a body of water such as an ocean, lake, or stream, including the sediment surface and some sub-surface layers.
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Berriasian
In the geological timescale, the Berriasian is an age/stage of the Early/Lower Cretaceous.
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Bertie Formation
The Bertie Group or Bertie Limestone, also referred to as the Bertie Dolomite and the Bertie Formation, is an upper Silurian (Pridoli, or Cayugan) geologic group and Lagerstätte in southern Ontario, Canada, and western New York State, United States. Lagerstätte and Bertie Formation are lagerstätten.
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Besano Formation
The Besano Formation is a geological formation in the southern Alps of northwestern Italy and southern Switzerland.
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Bickershaw
Bickershaw is a village, effectively a suburb of Abram, within the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, in Greater Manchester, England.
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Big Hill Formation
The Big Hill Formation is a geologic formation in Michigan.
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Biomineralization
Biomineralization, also written biomineralisation, is the process by which living organisms produce minerals, often resulting in hardened or stiffened mineralized tissues.
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Bioturbation
Bioturbation is defined as the reworking of soils and sediments by animals or plants.
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Biozone
In biostratigraphy, biostratigraphic units or biozones are intervals of geological strata that are defined on the basis of their characteristic fossil taxa, as opposed to a lithostratigraphic unit which is defined by the lithological properties of the surrounding rock.
Bird
Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.
Bitter Springs Group
The Bitter Springs Group, also known as the Bitter Springs Formation is a Precambrian fossil locality in Australia, which preserves stromatolites and microorganisms in silica. Lagerstätte and Bitter Springs Group are lagerstätten.
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Bitter Springs type preservation
The Bitter Springs preservational mode is the preservation of microorganisms in silica, in shallow Precambrian waters.
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Bitumen
Bitumen is an immensely viscous constituent of petroleum.
Blackberry Hill
Blackberry Hill is a Konservat-Lagerstätte of Cambrian age located within the Elk Mound Group in Marathon County, Wisconsin. Lagerstätte and Blackberry Hill are lagerstätten.
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Boggy Formation
The Boggy Formation is a geologic formation in Arkansas and Oklahoma.
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Bolong
Bolong (meaning "Bo's dragon") is a genus of iguanodontian dinosaur known from the Early Cretaceous-age Yixian Formation of western Liaoning Province, China.
Bone bed
A bone bed is any geological stratum or deposit that contains bones of whatever kind.
Boring Billion
The Boring Billion, otherwise known as the Mid Proterozoic and Earth's Middle Ages, is an informal geological time period between 1.8 and 0.8 billion years ago (Ga) during the middle Proterozoic eon spanning from the Statherian to the Tonian periods, characterized by more or less tectonic stability, climatic stasis and slow biological evolution.
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Brachiopod
Brachiopods, phylum Brachiopoda, are a phylum of trochozoan animals that have hard "valves" (shells) on the upper and lower surfaces, unlike the left and right arrangement in bivalve molluscs.
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Bradoriida
Bradoriida, also called bradoriids, are an extinct order of small marine arthropods with a bivalved carapace, which globally distributed, forming a significant portion of the Cambrian and Early Ordovician soft-bodied communities.
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Brandon Bridge Formation
The Brandon Bridge Formation is a geologic formation in Wisconsin. Lagerstätte and Brandon Bridge Formation are lagerstätten.
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British Columbia
British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada.
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Buen Formation
The Buen Formation is a geologic formation and Lagerstätte in Peary Land, North Greenland. Lagerstätte and Buen Formation are lagerstätten.
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Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France
The Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, otherwise known as BSGF - Earth Sciences Bulletin is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering Earth sciences.
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Bullock Creek (Northern Territory)
The Bullock Creek Fossil site is one of three known vertebrate fossil sites in the Northern Territory of Australia, along with the Alcoota Fossil Beds and the Kangaroo Well site on Deep Well Station.
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Burgess Shale
The Burgess Shale is a fossil-bearing deposit exposed in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia, Canada. Lagerstätte and Burgess Shale are lagerstätten.
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Burgess Shale-type preservation
The Burgess Shale of British Columbia is famous for its exceptional preservation of mid-Cambrian organisms.
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Burmese amber
Burmese amber, also known as Burmite or Kachin amber, is amber from the Hukawng Valley in northern Myanmar. Lagerstätte and Burmese amber are lagerstätten.
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Buryatia
Buryatia (Buryatiya; Buryaad Ulas), officially the Republic of Buryatia, is a republic of Russia located in the Russian Far East.
Calamites
Calamites is a genus of extinct arborescent (tree-like) horsetails to which the modern horsetails (genus Equisetum) are closely related.
Calcite
Calcite is a carbonate mineral and the most stable polymorph of calcium carbonate (CaCO3).
Calcium carbonate
Calcium carbonate is a chemical compound with the chemical formula.
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California
California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.
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Cambrian
The Cambrian is the first geological period of the Paleozoic Era, and the Phanerozoic Eon.
Cambrian explosion
The Cambrian explosion (also known as Cambrian radiation or Cambrian diversification) is an interval of time approximately in the Cambrian period of the early Paleozoic when a sudden radiation of complex life occurred, and practically all major animal phyla started appearing in the fossil record.
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Cambrian Stage 4
Cambrian Stage 4 is the still unnamed fourth stage of the Cambrian and the upper stage of Cambrian Series 2.
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Camelidae
Camelids are members of the biological family Camelidae, the only currently living family in the suborder Tylopoda.
Campania
Campania is an administrative region of Italy; most of it is in the south-western portion of the Italian peninsula (with the Tyrrhenian Sea to its west), but it also includes the small Phlegraean Islands and the island of Capri.
Campanian
The Campanian is the fifth of six ages of the Late Cretaceous Epoch on the geologic timescale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS).
Canada
Canada is a country in North America.
Canjuers Lagerstätte
The Canjuers Lagerstätte is a Konservat-Lagerstätte located inside the military camp of Canjuers, in Haute Provence, in the Var department in South-East France.
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Canowindra
Situated on the Belubula River, Canowindra (pronounced) is a historic township and the largest population centre in Cabonne Shire. Lagerstätte and Canowindra are lagerstätten.
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Capitanian mass extinction event
The Capitanian mass extinction event, also known as the end-Guadalupian extinction event, the Guadalupian-Lopingian boundary mass extinction, the pre-Lopingian crisis, or the Middle Permian extinction, was an extinction event that predated the end-Permian extinction event.
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Carbonaceous film (paleontology)
A carbonaceous film or carbon film is an organism outline of a fossil.
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Carboniferous
The Carboniferous is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic that spans 60 million years from the end of the Devonian Period Ma (million years ago) to the beginning of the Permian Period, Ma.
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Carnian
The Carnian (less commonly, Karnian) is the lowermost stage of the Upper Triassic Series (or earliest age of the Late Triassic Epoch).
Carnian pluvial episode
The Carnian pluvial episode (CPE), often called the Carnian pluvial event, was an interval of major change in global climate that was synchronous with significant changes in Earth's biota both in the sea and on land.
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Castle Bank
Castle Bank is a fossil deposit in Wales that is 462 million years old and dates from the middle Ordovician period when Mid Wales was covered by an ocean basin.
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Catalonia
Catalonia (Catalunya; Cataluña; Catalonha) is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a nationality by its Statute of Autonomy.
Cell Press
Cell Press is an all-science publisher of over 50 scientific journals across the life, physical, earth, and health sciences, both independently and in partnership with scientific societies.
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Cementation (geology)
Cementation involves ions carried in groundwater chemically precipitating to form new crystalline material between sedimentary grains.
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Cenomanian
The Cenomanian is, in the International Commission on Stratigraphy's (ICS) geological timescale, the oldest or earliest age of the Late Cretaceous Epoch or the lowest stage of the Upper Cretaceous Series.
See Lagerstätte and Cenomanian
Cenomanian-Turonian boundary event
The Cenomanian-Turonian boundary event, also known as the Cenomanian-Turonian extinction, Cenomanian-Turonian Oceanic Anoxic Event (OAE 2), and referred to also as the Bonarelli Event or Level, was an anoxic extinction event in the Cretaceous period.
See Lagerstätte and Cenomanian-Turonian boundary event
Ceratopsia
Ceratopsia or Ceratopia (or; Greek: "horned faces") is a group of herbivorous, beaked dinosaurs that thrived in what are now North America, Europe, and Asia, during the Cretaceous Period, although ancestral forms lived earlier, in the Jurassic.
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Chalk Group
The Chalk Group (often just called the Chalk) is the lithostratigraphic unit (a certain number of rock strata) which contains the Upper Cretaceous limestone succession in southern and eastern England.
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Charente
Charente (Saintongese: Chérente; Charanta) is a department in the administrative region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, south western France.
Chattian
The Chattian is, in the geologic timescale, the younger of two ages or upper of two stages of the Oligocene Epoch/Series.
Chelicerata
The subphylum Chelicerata (from Neo-Latin) constitutes one of the major subdivisions of the phylum Arthropoda.
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Chemnitz petrified forest
The Chemnitz petrified forest is a petrified forest in Chemnitz, Germany, that is part of the Early Permian Leukersdorf Formation.
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Chiapas
Chiapas (Tzotzil and Tzeltal: Chyapas), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Chiapas (Estado Libre y Soberano de Chiapas), is one of the states that make up the 32 federal entities of Mexico.
Chicxulub crater
The Chicxulub crater is an impact crater buried underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico.
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Chimaera
Chimaeras are cartilaginous fish in the order Chimaeriformes, known informally as ghost sharks, rat fish, spookfish, or rabbit fish; the last three names are not to be confused with rattails, Opisthoproctidae, or Siganidae, respectively.
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.
Chondrichthyes
Chondrichthyes is a class of jawed fish that contains the cartilaginous fish or chondrichthyans, which all have skeletons primarily composed of cartilage.
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Chongqing
Chongqing is a municipality in Southwestern China.
Claino con Osteno
Claino con Osteno (Comasco: Scin Osten) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Como in the Italian region of Lombardy, located about north of Milan and about north of Como.
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Clam shrimp
Clam shrimp are a group of bivalved branchiopod crustaceans that resemble the unrelated bivalved molluscs.
See Lagerstätte and Clam shrimp
Clarkia fossil beds
The Clarkia fossil beds (also known locally as the Fossil Bowl) is a Miocene Latah Formation lagerstätte near Clarkia, Idaho. Lagerstätte and Clarkia fossil beds are lagerstätten.
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Class (biology)
In biological classification, class (classis) is a taxonomic rank, as well as a taxonomic unit, a taxon, in that rank.
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Cleveland, Utah
Cleveland is a town in Emery County, Utah, United States.
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Clinton Group
The Clinton Group (also referred to as the Clinton Formation or the Clinton Shale) is a mapped unit of sedimentary rock found throughout eastern North America.
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Clydagnathus
Clydagnathus is a genus of conodonts in the family Cavusgnathidae.
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Coal ball
A coal ball is a type of concretion, varying in shape from an imperfect sphere to a flat-lying, irregular slab.
Coalbrookdale Formation
Coalbrookdale Formation, earlier known as Wenlock Shale or Wenlock Shale Formation and also referred to as Herefordshire Lagerstätte in palaeontology, is a fossil-rich deposit (Konservat-Lagerstätte) in Powys and Herefordshire at the England–Wales border in UK. Lagerstätte and Coalbrookdale Formation are lagerstätten.
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Coleoidea
Coleoidea or Dibranchiata is one of the two subclasses of cephalopods containing all the various taxa popularly thought of as "soft-bodied" or "shell-less" (i.e. octopus, squid and cuttlefish).
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.
Colorado
Colorado (other variants) is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.
Columbian mammoth
The Columbian mammoth (Mammuthus columbi) is an extinct species of mammoth that inhabited North America from southern Canada to Costa Rica during the Pleistocene epoch.
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Communications Biology
Communications Biology is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering research in biology.
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Comptes rendus de l'Académie des Sciences
(English: Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences), or simply Comptes rendus, is a French scientific journal published since 1835.
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Concretion
A concretion is a hard, compact mass formed by the precipitation of mineral cement within the spaces between particles, and is found in sedimentary rock or soil.
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Confuciusornis
Confuciusornis is a genus of basal crow-sized avialan from the Early Cretaceous Period of the Yixian and Jiufotang Formations of China, dating from 125 to 120 million years ago.
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Coniacian
The Coniacian is an age or stage in the geologic timescale.
Conodont
Conodonts (Greek kōnos, "cone", + odont, "tooth") are an extinct group of eel-looking agnathan (jawless) vertebrates, classified in the class Conodonta.
Conulariida
Conulariida are an extinct group of medusozoan cnidarians known from fossils spanning from the latest Ediacaran up until the Late Triassic.
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Coon Creek Formation
The Coon Creek Formation or Coon Creek Tongue is a geologic unit and ''Konservat-Lagerstätte'' located in western Tennessee and extreme northeast Mississippi.
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Cow Branch Formation
The Cow Branch Formation is a Late Triassic geologic formation in Virginia and North Carolina in the eastern United States.
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Crab
Crabs are decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura, which typically have a very short projecting tail-like abdomen, usually hidden entirely under the thorax (brachyura means "short tail" in Greek).
Crato Formation
The Crato Formation is a geologic formation of Early Cretaceous (Aptian) age in northeastern Brazil's Araripe Basin. Lagerstätte and Crato Formation are lagerstätten.
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Crawford Lake (Halton Region)
Crawford Lake (Kionywarihwaen) is a lake near the community of Campbellville, in the town of Milton, Regional Municipality of Halton, Ontario, Canada.
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Cretaceous
The Cretaceous is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya).
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Cretaceous Research
Cretaceous Research is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Elsevier.
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Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event
The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event, also known as the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction, was the mass extinction of three-quarters of the plant and animal species on Earth approximately 66 million years ago.
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Crocodile
Crocodiles (family Crocodylidae) or true crocodiles are large semiaquatic reptiles that live throughout the tropics in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia.
Crocodilia
Crocodilia (or Crocodylia, both) is an order of semiaquatic, predatory reptiles known as crocodilians.
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Crustacean
Crustaceans are a group of arthropods that are a part of the subphylum Crustacea, a large, diverse group of mainly aquatic arthropods including decapods (shrimps, prawns, crabs, lobsters and crayfish), seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, opossum shrimps, amphipods and mantis shrimp.
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Cryogenian
The Cryogenian (from krýos, meaning "cold" and γένεσις, romanized:, meaning "birth") is a geologic period that lasted from.
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Cuenca, Spain
Cuenca is a city and municipality of Spain located in the autonomous community of Castilla–La Mancha.
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Cyanobacteria
Cyanobacteria, also called Cyanobacteriota or Cyanophyta, are a phylum of autotrophic gram-negative bacteria that can obtain biological energy via oxygenic photosynthesis.
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Danata Formation
The Danata Formation (or Danatinskaya, Danatinsk, Russian: Danata Svita) is an earliest Eocene to Middle Eocene sedimentary succession located in Turkmenistan.
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Danian
The Danian is the oldest age or lowest stage of the Paleocene Epoch or Series, of the Paleogene Period or System, and of the Cenozoic Era or Erathem.
Dasyuridae
The Dasyuridae are a family of marsupials native to Australia and New Guinea, including 71 extant species divided into 17 genera.
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Decorah, Iowa
Decorah is a city in and the county seat of Winneshiek County, Iowa, United States.
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Deep-water coral
The habitat of deep-water corals, also known as cold-water corals, extends to deeper, darker parts of the oceans than tropical corals, ranging from near the surface to the abyss, beyond where water temperatures may be as cold as.
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Dendrophyllia
Dendrophyllia is a genus of stony cup corals in the family Dendrophylliidae.
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Denmark
Denmark (Danmark) is a Nordic country in the south-central portion of Northern Europe.
Department of Arequipa
Arequipa (Ariqipa) is a department and region in southwestern Peru.
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Department of Ica
Ica (Ika) is a department and region of Peru.
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Devonian
The Devonian is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic era during the Phanerozoic eon, spanning 60.3 million years from the end of the preceding Silurian period at million years ago (Ma), to the beginning of the succeeding Carboniferous period at Ma.
Diapsid
Diapsids ("two arches") are a clade of sauropsids, distinguished from more primitive eureptiles by the presence of two holes, known as temporal fenestrae, in each side of their skulls.
Diatomaceous earth
Diatomaceous earth, diatomite, celite or kieselgur/kieselguhr is a naturally occurring, soft, siliceous sedimentary rock that can be crumbled into a fine white to off-white powder.
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Diceratosaurus
Diceratosaurus is an extinct genus of nectridean tetrapodomorphs within the family Diplocaulidae.
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Dinantian
Dinantian is the name of a series or epoch from the Lower Carboniferous system in western Europe between 359.2 to 326.4 million years ago.
Dinoflagellate
The dinoflagellates are a monophyletic group of single-celled eukaryotes constituting the phylum Dinoflagellata and are usually considered protists.
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Dinosaur
Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria.
Dire wolf
The dire wolf (Aenocyon dirus) is an extinct canine.
Dodo
The dodo (Raphus cucullatus) is an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Mauritius, which is east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean.
Dolphin
A dolphin is an aquatic mammal in the clade Odontoceti (toothed whale).
Dominican amber
Dominican amber is amber from the Dominican Republic derived from resin of the extinct tree Hymenaea protera. Lagerstätte and Dominican amber are lagerstätten.
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Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic is a North American country on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north.
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Dongbeititan
Dongbeititan is a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous-age Yixian Formation of Beipiao, Liaoning, China.
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Douglas Lake Member
The Douglas Lake Member is a geologic unit of member rank of the Lenoir Limestone that overlies the Mascot Dolomite and underlies typical nodular member of the Lenoir Limestone in Douglas Lake, Tennessee, region. Lagerstätte and Douglas Lake Member are lagerstätten.
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Doushantuo Formation
The Doushantuo Formation (formerly transcribed as Toushantuo or Toushantou, from) is a geological formation in western Hubei, eastern Guizhou, southern Shaanxi, central Jiangxi, and other localities in China. Lagerstätte and Doushantuo Formation are lagerstätten.
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Doushantuo type preservation
In paleontology, Doushantuo preservation is a type of fossilization unique to the Doushantuo formation.
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Dromaeosauridae
Dromaeosauridae is a family of feathered coelurosaurian theropod dinosaurs.
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Drumian
The Drumian is a stage of the Miaolingian Series of the Cambrian.
Early Cretaceous
The Early Cretaceous (geochronological name) or the Lower Cretaceous (chronostratigraphic name) is the earlier or lower of the two major divisions of the Cretaceous.
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East Kirkton Quarry
East Kirkton Quarry, or simply East Kirkton, is a former limestone quarry in West Lothian, Scotland, now a renowned fossil site.
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Ebelsberg Formation
The Ebelsberg Formation is a geologic formation in Austria.
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Echinoderm
An echinoderm is any deuterostomal animal of the phylum Echinodermata, which includes starfish, brittle stars, sea urchins, sand dollars and sea cucumbers, as well as the sessile sea lilies or "stone lilies".
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Ediacara Hills
Ediacara Hills, also known as Ediacaran Hills, are a range of low hills in the northern part of the Flinders Ranges of South Australia, around north of the state capital of Adelaide.
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Ediacaran
The Ediacaran is a geological period of the Neoproterozoic Era that spans 96 million years from the end of the Cryogenian Period at 635 Mya to the beginning of the Cambrian Period at 538.8 Mya.
Ediacaran type preservation
Ediacaran type preservation relates to the dominant preservational mode in the Ediacaran period, where Ediacaran organisms were preserved as casts on the surface of microbial mats.
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Eifel
The Eifel (Äifel) is a low mountain range in western Germany, eastern Belgium and northern Luxembourg.
El Doctor Formation
The El Doctor Formation is a geologic formation in Mexico.
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Ellisdale Fossil Site
The Ellisdale Fossil Site is located near Ellisdale in the valley of the Crosswicks Creek, in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States.
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Elrathia
Elrathia is a genus of trilobite belonging to Ptychopariacea known from the mid-Cambrian of Laurentia (North America).
Embryo
An embryo is the initial stage of development for a multicellular organism.
Emsian
The Emsian is one of three faunal stages in the Early Devonian Epoch.
Emu Bay Shale
The Emu Bay Shale is a geological formation in Emu Bay, South Australia, containing a major Konservat-Lagerstätte (fossil beds with soft tissue preservation). Lagerstätte and Emu Bay Shale are lagerstätten.
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Emydidae
Emydidae (Latin emys (freshwater tortoise) + Ancient Greek εἶδος (eîdos, “appearance, resemblance”)) is a family of testudines (turtles) that includes close to 50 species in 10 genera.
Enantiornithes
The Enantiornithes, also known as enantiornithines or enantiornitheans in literature, are a group of extinct avialans ("birds" in the broad sense), the most abundant and diverse group known from the Mesozoic era.
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Entomologia Generalis
Entomologia Generalis is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering general and applied entomology.
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Eocene
The Eocene is a geological epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (Ma).
Eocene Okanagan Highlands
The Eocene Okanagan Highlands or Eocene Okanogan Highlands are a series of Early Eocene geological formations which span a transect of British Columbia, Canada, and Washington state, United States. Lagerstätte and Eocene Okanagan Highlands are lagerstätten.
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Equisetum
Equisetum (horsetail, marestail, snake grass, puzzlegrass) is the only living genus in Equisetaceae, a family of vascular plants that reproduce by spores rather than seeds.
Eramosa Member
The Eramosa Member is a Silurian stratigraphic unit of the Lockport Formation exposed along the Niagara Escarpment in Ontario and western New York State.
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Escuminac Formation
The Escuminac Formation is a geologic formation in Quebec.
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Euryhaline
Euryhaline organisms are able to adapt to a wide range of salinities.
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Eurypterid
Eurypterids, often informally called sea scorpions, are a group of extinct arthropods that form the order Eurypterida.
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Eurypterus
Eurypterus is an extinct genus of eurypterid, a group of organisms commonly called "sea scorpions".
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Eusthenopteron
Eusthenopteron (from εὖ, 'good', σθένος, 'strength', and πτερόν 'wing' or 'fin') is a genus of prehistoric sarcopterygian (often called "lobe-finned") fish known from several species that lived during the Late Devonian period, about 385 million years ago.
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Euthycarcinoidea
Euthycarcinoidea are an enigmatic group of extinct, possibly amphibious arthropods that ranged from Cambrian to Triassic times.
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Evolution
Evolution is the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.
Facies
In geology, a facies (same pronunciation and spelling in the plural) is a body of rock with distinctive characteristics.
Falcatamacaris
Falcatamacaris is an extinct genus of Cambrian artiopodan arthropod, only known from the type species F. bellua described in 2014, from the Guzhangian (Cambrian Stage 3) aged Weeks Formation in Utah.
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Famennian
The Famennian is the later of two faunal stages in the Late Devonian epoch.
Felidae
Felidae is the family of mammals in the order Carnivora colloquially referred to as cats.
Fezouata Formation
The Fezouata Formation or Fezouata Shale is a geological formation in Morocco which dates to the Early Ordovician.
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Filter feeder
Filter feeders are aquatic animals that acquire nutrients by feeding on organic matters, food particles or smaller organisms (bacteria, microalgae and zooplanktons) suspended in water, typically by having the water pass over or through a specialized filtering organ.
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Firth of Forth
The Firth of Forth is the estuary, or firth, of several Scottish rivers including the River Forth.
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Fish
A fish (fish or fishes) is an aquatic, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with swimming fins and a hard skull, but lacking limbs with digits.
Flash flood
A flash flood is a rapid flooding of low-lying areas: washes, rivers, dry lakes and depressions.
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Floian
The Floian is the second stage of the Ordovician Period.
Florissant Formation
The Florissant Formation is a sedimentary geologic formation outcropping around Florissant, Teller County, Colorado. Lagerstätte and Florissant Formation are lagerstätten.
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Fluvial sediment processes
In geography and geology, fluvial sediment processes or fluvial sediment transport are associated with rivers and streams and the deposits and landforms created by sediments.
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Fortunian
The Fortunian age marks the beginning of the Phanerozoic Eon, the Paleozoic Era, and the Cambrian Period.
Fossil
A fossil (from Classical Latin) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.
Fossil Hill Member
The Fossil Hill Member is a Middle Triassic-aged rock unit.
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Fossil track
A fossil track or ichnite (Greek "ιχνιον" (ichnion) – a track, trace or footstep) is a fossilized footprint.
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Foulden Maar
Foulden Maar is a fossil site near Middlemarch in Otago, New Zealand. Lagerstätte and Foulden Maar are lagerstätten.
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France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.
Fur (island)
Fur (alternative older spelling: Fuur) is a Danish island in the Limfjord.
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Fur Formation
The Fur Formation is a marine geological formation of Ypresian (Lower Eocene Epoch, c. 56.0-54.5 Ma) age which crops out in the Limfjord region of northern Denmark from Silstrup via Mors and Fur to Ertebølle, and can be seen in many cliffs and quarries in the area.
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Galeaspida
Galeaspida (from Latin, 'Helmet shields') is an extinct taxon of jawless marine and freshwater fish.
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Gansu
Gansu is an inland province in Northwestern China.
Gansus
Gansus is a genus of aquatic birds that lived during the Aptian age of the Early Cretaceous (Aptian-Albian) period in what are now Gansu and Liaoning provinces, western China.
Geobiology (journal)
Geobiology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal of geobiology published by Wiley-Blackwell.
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Geologic time scale
The geologic time scale or geological time scale (GTS) is a representation of time based on the rock record of Earth.
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Geologica Acta
Geologica Acta is a peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal that covers research in the Earth sciences.
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Geological formation
A geological formation, or simply formation, is a body of rock having a consistent set of physical characteristics (lithology) that distinguishes it from adjacent bodies of rock, and which occupies a particular position in the layers of rock exposed in a geographical region (the stratigraphic column).
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Geological Magazine
The Geological Magazine is a peer-reviewed scientific journal established in 1864, covering the earth sciences.
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Geological Society of America Bulletin
The Geological Society of America Bulletin (until 1960 called The Bulletin of the Geological Society of America and also commonly referred to as GSA Bulletin) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that has been published by the Geological Society of America since 1890.
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Geology
Geology is a branch of natural science concerned with the Earth and other astronomical objects, the rocks of which they are composed, and the processes by which they change over time.
Geology (journal)
Geology is a peer-reviewed publication of the Geological Society of America (GSA).
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Georgian Bay Formation
The Georgian Bay Formation is a geologic formation in Michigan and Ontario.
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Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.
Glyptodont
Glyptodonts are an extinct clade of large, heavily armoured armadillos, reaching up to in height, and maximum body masses of around 2 tonnes.
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Gnathostomata
Gnathostomata (from Ancient Greek: γνάθος 'jaw' + στόμα 'mouth') are the jawed vertebrates.
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Gogo Formation
The Gogo Formation in the Kimberley region of Western Australia is a Lagerstätte that exhibits exceptional preservation of a Devonian reef community. Lagerstätte and Gogo Formation are lagerstätten.
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Gomel Region
Gomel Region or Homieĺ Region, also known as Gomel Oblast or Homyel Voblasts (Homieĺskaja voblasć; Gomelskaya oblast), is one of the regions of Belarus.
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Gondwana Research
Gondwana Research is a peer-reviewed scientific journal with an "all earth science" scope and an emphasis on the origin and evolution of continents.
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Granton Shrimp Bed
The Granton Shrimp Bed is a fossil-bearing deposit exposed on the southern shore of the Firth of Forth near Edinburgh, in Scotland. Lagerstätte and Granton Shrimp Bed are lagerstätten.
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Gray Fossil Site
The Gray Fossil Site is an Early Pliocene assemblage of fossils dating between 4.5 and 4.9 million years old, located near the town of Gray in Washington County, Tennessee.
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Grès à Voltzia
The Grès à Voltzia is a geologic formation in France.
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Green River Formation
The Green River Formation is an Eocene geologic formation that records the sedimentation in a group of intermountain lakes in three basins along the present-day Green River in Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah. Lagerstätte and Green River Formation are lagerstätten.
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Greenland
Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat,; Grønland) is a North American island autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.
Gregory River (Australia)
The Gregory River (Waanyi: Ngumarryina) is a river in the Northern Territory and the state of Queensland, Australia.
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Ground sloth
Ground sloths are a diverse group of extinct sloths in the mammalian superorder Xenarthra.
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Grundy County, Illinois
Grundy County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois.
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Guangxi
Guangxi, officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China, located in South China and bordering Vietnam (Hà Giang, Cao Bằng, Lạng Sơn, and Quảng Ninh Provinces) and the Gulf of Tonkin.
Guanling Formation
The Guanling Formation is a Middle Triassic (Anisian or Pelsonian in the regional chronostratigraphy) geologic formation in southwestern China.
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Guiyang biota
The Guiyang biota is an exceptionally preserved Early Triassic (approximately 250.8 million years ago) fossil assemblage from the Daye Formation near Guiyang (China), discovered between 2015 and 2019 and first reported in 2023. Lagerstätte and Guiyang biota are lagerstätten.
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Guizhou
Guizhou is an inland province in Southwestern China.
Gulf of Mexico
The Gulf of Mexico (Golfo de México) is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, mostly surrounded by the North American continent.
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Gzhelian
The Gzhelian is an age in the ICS geologic time scale or a stage in the stratigraphic column.
Hadrosauridae
Hadrosaurids, or duck-billed dinosaurs, are members of the ornithischian family Hadrosauridae.
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Hallucigenia
Hallucigenia is a genus of lobopodian known from Cambrian aged fossils in Burgess Shale-type deposits in Canada and China, and from isolated spines around the world.
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Hamilton Quarry
Hamilton Quarry is a Late Carboniferous lagerstätte near Hamilton, Kansas, United States. Lagerstätte and Hamilton Quarry are lagerstätten.
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Harding Sandstone
The Harding Sandstone is a geologic formation in Colorado.
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Hell Creek Formation
The Hell Creek Formation is an intensively studied division of mostly Upper Cretaceous and some lower Paleocene rocks in North America, named for exposures studied along Hell Creek, near Jordan, Montana. Lagerstätte and Hell Creek Formation are lagerstätten.
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Herefordshire
Herefordshire is a ceremonial county in the West Midlands region of England.
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Hesperornis
Hesperornis (meaning "western bird") is a genus of cormorant-like Ornithuran that spanned throughout the Campanian age, and possibly even up to the early Maastrichtian age, of the Late Cretaceous period.
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Hesseltal Formation
The Hesseltal Formation or Blackcoloured Formation is a Late Cretaceous (late Cenomanian to early Turonian) geological formation from northern Germany.
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Hickory
Hickory is a common name for trees composing the genus Carya, which includes around 18 species.
Hidalgo (state)
Hidalgo, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Hidalgo (Estado Libre y Soberano de Hidalgo), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, constitute the 32 federal entities of Mexico.
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High Atlas
The High Atlas, also called the Grand Atlas, is a mountain range in central Morocco, North Africa, the highest part of the Atlas Mountains.
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Historical Biology
Historical Biology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal of paleobiology.
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Hoard
A hoard or "wealth deposit" is an archaeological term for a collection of valuable objects or artifacts, sometimes purposely buried in the ground, in which case it is sometimes also known as a cache.
Holocene
The Holocene is the current geological epoch, beginning approximately 11,700 years ago.
Holzmaden
Holzmaden is a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany that lies between Stuttgart and Ulm.
Homotherium
Homotherium is an extinct genus of scimitar-toothed cat belonging to the extinct subfamily Machairodontinae that inhabited North America, South America, Eurasia, and Africa during the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs from around 4 million to 12,000 years ago.
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Horseshoe crab
Horseshoe crabs are marine and brackish water arthropods of the family Limulidae and are the only surviving xiphosurans.
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House Range
The House Range is a north-south trending mountain range in Millard County, of west-central Utah.
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Hubei
Hubei is an inland province of China, and is part of the Central China region.
Hukawng Valley
The Hukawng Valley (ဟူးကောင်းချိုင့်ဝှမ်း; also spelt Hukaung Valley) is an isolated valley in Myanmar, roughly in area.
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Hunan
Hunan is an inland province of China.
Hunsrück Slate
The Hunsrück Slate (Hunsrück-Schiefer) is a Lower Devonian lithostratigraphic unit, a type of rock strata, in the German regions of the Hunsrück and Taunus. Lagerstätte and Hunsrück Slate are lagerstätten.
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Hupehsuchia
Hupehsuchia is an order of diapsid reptiles closely related to ichthyosaurs.
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Hybodontiformes
Hybodontiformes, commonly called hybodonts, are an extinct group of shark-like cartilaginous fish (chondrichthyans) which existed from the late Devonian to the Late Cretaceous.
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Hylonomus
Hylonomus (hylo- "forest" + nomos "dweller") is an extinct genus of reptile that lived during the Bashkirian stage of the Late Carboniferous.
Hypoxia (environmental)
Hypoxia (hypo: "below", oxia: "oxygenated") refers to low oxygen conditions.
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Ichthyosauria
Ichthyosauria (Ancient Greek for "fish lizard" – and) is an order of large extinct marine reptiles sometimes referred to as "ichthyosaurs", although the term is also used for wider clades in which the order resides.
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Ichthyosauriformes
The Ichthyosauriformes are a group of marine reptiles, belonging to the Ichthyosauromorpha, that lived during the Mesozoic.
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Idaho
Idaho is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.
Illinois
Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
In Amenas District
In Amenas is a district in Illizi Province, Algeria.
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Induan
The Induan is the first age of the Early Triassic epoch in the geologic timescale, or the lowest stage of the Lower Triassic series in chronostratigraphy.
Insect
Insects (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta.
International Society of Zoological Sciences
The International Society of Zoological Sciences (ISZS) was founded to encourage research, education, and communication in zoology.
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Invertebrate
Invertebrates is an umbrella term describing animals that neither develop nor retain a vertebral column (commonly known as a spine or backbone), which evolved from the notochord.
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Iowa
Iowa is a doubly landlocked state in the upper Midwestern region of the United States.
Ireland
Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe.
Ironstone
Ironstone is a sedimentary rock, either deposited directly as a ferruginous sediment or created by chemical replacement, that contains a substantial proportion of an iron ore compound from which iron (Fe) can be smelted commercially.
Iroquoian peoples
The Iroquoian peoples are an ethnolinguistic group of peoples from eastern North America.
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Irritator
Irritator is a genus of spinosaurid dinosaur that lived in what is now Brazil during the Albian stage of the Early Cretaceous Period, about 113 to 110 million years ago.
Isopoda
Isopoda is an order of crustaceans.
Israel
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.
Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.
Jaekelopterus
Jaekelopterus is a genus of predatory eurypterid, a group of extinct aquatic arthropods.
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Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.
Jellyfish
Jellyfish, also known as sea jellies, are the medusa-phase of certain gelatinous members of the subphylum Medusozoa, which is a major part of the phylum Cnidaria.
Jialingjiang Formation
The Jialingjiang Formation (嘉陵江组) is a geologic feature associated with the Sichuan Basin of China, generally underlying the area of the basin, with its origins dating to the Early Triassic period of geologic time, around a quarter of a billion years ago, and before.
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Jinju Formation
The Jinju Formation is an Early Cretaceous geologic formation in South Korea.
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Jiufotang Formation
The Jiufotang Formation is an Early Cretaceous geological formation in Chaoyang, Liaoning which has yielded fossils of feathered dinosaurs, primitive birds, pterosaurs, and other organisms (see Jehol Biota).
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Joggins
Joggins is a rural community located in western Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Joggins Formation
The Joggins Formation is a geologic formation in Nova Scotia. Lagerstätte and Joggins Formation are lagerstätten.
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Jordan
Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia.
Journal of Anatomy
The Journal of Anatomy is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Wiley on behalf of the Anatomical Society.
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Journal of Iberian Geology
Journal of Iberian Geology (formerly Cuadernos de Geología Ibérica) is a triannual peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
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Journal of Paleontology
The Journal of Paleontology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering the field of paleontology.
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Journal of South American Earth Sciences
The Journal of South American Earth Sciences is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Elsevier.
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Journal of Systematic Palaeontology
The Journal of Systematic Palaeontology (Print:, online) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal of palaeontology published by Taylor & Francis on behalf of the British Natural History Museum.
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Journal of Systematics and Evolution
The Journal of Systematics and Evolution is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal of botany.
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Journal of the Geological Society
The Journal of the Geological Society is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Geological Society of London.
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Jurassic
The Jurassic is a geologic period and stratigraphic system that spanned from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period, approximately Mya.
Jurassic National Monument
Jurassic National Monument, at the site of the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry, well known for containing the densest concentration of Jurassic dinosaur fossils ever found, is a paleontological site located near Cleveland, Utah, in the San Rafael Swell, a part of the geological layers known as the Morrison Formation.
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Kaili Formation
The Kaili Formation(凯里組) is a stratigraphic formation which was deposited during the Lower and Middle Cambrian (~513 to 506 million years ago). Lagerstätte and Kaili Formation are lagerstätten.
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Kaliningrad Oblast
Kaliningrad Oblast (translit) is the westernmost federal subject of the Russian Federation, in Central and Eastern Europe.
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Kansas
Kansas is a landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
Karabastau Formation
The Karabastau Formation (Qarabastaý svıtasy) is a geological formation and lagerstätte in the Karatau Mountains of southern Kazakhstan whose strata date to the Middle to Late Jurassic. Lagerstätte and Karabastau Formation are lagerstätten.
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Karst Plateau
The Karst Plateau or the Karst region (Kras, Carso), also locally called Karst, is a karst plateau region extending across the border of southwestern Slovenia and northeastern Italy.
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Katian
The Katian is the second stage of the Upper Ordovician.
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country mostly in Central Asia, with a part in Eastern Europe.
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Kilkenny
Kilkenny (meaning 'church of Cainnech').
Kinnekulle
Kinnekulle is a flat-topped mountain in the county of Västergötland, southwestern Sweden, on the eastern shore of lake Vänern.
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Kishenehn Formation
The Kishenehn Formation is a Paleogene stratigraphic unit in Montana. Lagerstätte and Kishenehn Formation are lagerstätten.
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Klerf Formation
The Klerf Formation is an Early Devonian (Emsian) formation that includes a Lagerstätte in the Northern Eifel hills, at Willwerath near Prüm, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
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Klondike Mountain Formation
The Klondike Mountain Formation is an Early Eocene (Ypresian) geological formation located in the northeast central area of Washington state.
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Komen
Komen (Comen or Comeno) is a settlement in Slovenia.
Koonwarra, Victoria
Koonwarra is a town in the South Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia.
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Kopet Dag
The Köpet Dag, Kopet Dagh, or Koppeh Dagh (Köpetdag; کپهداغ), also known as the Turkmen-Khorasan Mountain Range, is a mountain range on the border between Turkmenistan and Iran that extends about along the border southeast of the Caspian Sea, stretching northwest-southeast from near the Caspian Sea in the northwest to the Harirud River in the southeast.
Kupferschiefer
The Kupferschiefer (German for Copper Shale, also called Copper Slate) or Kupfermergel (Copper Marl), (T1 or Z1) is an extensive and remarkable sedimentary unit in Central Europe. Lagerstätte and Kupferschiefer are lagerstätten.
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Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan, officially the Kyrgyz Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Asia, lying in the Tian Shan and Pamir mountain ranges.
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La Brea Tar Pits
The La Brea Tar Pits is an active paleontological research site in urban Los Angeles. Lagerstätte and La Brea Tar Pits are lagerstätten.
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La Casita Formation
The La Casita Formation is a geologic formation in Mexico.
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La Huérguina Formation
The La Huérguina Formation (also known as the Calizas de La Huérguina Formation, La Huérguina Limestone Formation or as the Una Formation) is a geological formation in Spain whose strata date back to the Barremian stage of the Early Cretaceous. Lagerstätte and La Huérguina Formation are lagerstätten.
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La Pedrera de Rúbies Formation
The La Pedrera de Rúbies Formation, also called as La Pedrera de Meià is an Early Cretaceous (late Berriasian to early Barremian geologic formation in Catalonia, Spain. The formation crops out in the area of the Montsec in the Organyà Basin. At the La Pedrera de Meià locality, the formation consists of rhythmically laminated, lithographic limestones that formed in the distal areas of a large, shallow coastal lake.
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La Voulte-sur-Rhône (lagerstätte)
The late Middle Jurassic lagerstätte at La Voulte-sur-Rhône, in the Ardèche region of southwestern France, offers paleontologists an outstanding view of an undisturbed paleoecosystem that was preserved in fine detail as organisms died at the site and settled to the bottom of a shallow epicontinental sea, with a folded floor that in places exceeded 200 m at this site. Lagerstätte and la Voulte-sur-Rhône (lagerstätte) are lagerstätten.
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Lacustrine deposits
Lacustrine deposits are sedimentary rock formations which formed in the bottom of ancient lakes.
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Ladinian
The Ladinian is a stage and age in the Middle Triassic series or epoch.
Lagoon
A lagoon is a shallow body of water separated from a larger body of water by a narrow landform, such as reefs, barrier islands, barrier peninsulas, or isthmuses.
Lancashire
Lancashire (abbreviated Lancs) is a ceremonial county in North West England.
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Late Cretaceous
The Late Cretaceous (100.5–66 Ma) is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretaceous Period is divided in the geologic time scale.
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Late Miocene
The Late Miocene (also known as Upper Miocene) is a sub-epoch of the Miocene Epoch made up of two stages.
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Late Paleozoic icehouse
The late Paleozoic icehouse, also known as the Late Paleozoic Ice Age (LPIA) and formerly known as the Karoo ice age, was an ice age that began in the Late Devonian and ended in the Late Permian, occurring from 360 to 255 million years ago (Mya), and large land-based ice sheets were then present on Earth's surface.
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Laurentia
Laurentia or the North American Craton is a large continental craton that forms the ancient geological core of North America.
Lebach
Lebach is a town in the district of Saarlouis, in Saarland, Germany.
Lebanese amber
Lebanese amber is fossilized resin found in Lebanon and its surroundings.
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Lebanon
Lebanon (Lubnān), officially the Republic of Lebanon, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia.
Lens (geology)
In geology, a lens or lentil is a body of ore or rock that is thick in the middle and thin at the edges, resembling a convex lens in cross-section.
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Lepospondyli
Lepospondyli is a diverse taxon of early tetrapods.
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Lethaia
Lethaia is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal of Earth science, covering research on palaeontology and stratigraphy.
Liaoning
Liaoning is a coastal province in Northeast China that is the smallest, southernmost, and most populous province in the region.
Lichen
A lichen is a symbiosis of algae or cyanobacteria living among filaments of multiple fungi species, along with a yeast embedded in the cortex or "skin", in a mutualistic relationship.
Limestone
Limestone (calcium carbonate) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime.
List of fossil sites
This list of fossil sites is a worldwide list of localities known well for the presence of fossils.
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List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Colombia
Several stratigraphic units in Colombia have provided fossils.
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List of U.S. state fossils
Most American states have made a state fossil designation, in many cases during the 1980s.
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Lizard
Lizard is the common name used for all squamate reptiles other than snakes (and to a lesser extent amphisbaenians), encompassing over 7,000 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains.
Llandovery Epoch
In the geological timescale, the Llandovery Epoch (from 443.8 ± 1.5 million years ago to 433.4 ± 0.8 million years ago) occurred at the beginning of the Silurian Period.
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London Clay
The London Clay Formation is a marine geological formation of Ypresian (early Eocene Epoch, c. 54-50 million years ago) age which crops out in the southeast of England. Lagerstätte and London Clay are lagerstätten.
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Lower Saxony
Lower Saxony is a German state in northwestern Germany.
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Lower Silesian Voivodeship
Lower Silesian Voivodeship in southwestern Poland, is one of the 16 voivodeships (provinces) into which Poland is divided.
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Lutetian
The Lutetian is, in the geologic timescale, a stage or age in the Eocene.
Maar
A maar is a broad, low-relief volcanic crater caused by a phreatomagmatic eruption (an explosion which occurs when groundwater comes into contact with hot lava or magma).
Maastrichtian
The Maastrichtian is, in the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) geologic timescale, the latest age (uppermost stage) of the Late Cretaceous Epoch or Upper Cretaceous Series, the Cretaceous Period or System, and of the Mesozoic Era or Erathem.
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Madagascar
Madagascar, officially the Republic of Madagascar and the Fourth Republic of Madagascar, is an island country comprising the island of Madagascar and numerous smaller peripheral islands.
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Madygen Formation
The Madygen Formation (Russian: Madygen Svita) is a Middle–Late Triassic (Ladinian–Carnian) geologic formation and lagerstätte in the Batken and Osh Regions of western Kyrgyzstan, with minor outcrops in neighboring Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Lagerstätte and Madygen Formation are lagerstätten.
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Magothy Formation
The Magothy Formation is a geologic formation in Maryland.
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Mammal
A mammal is a vertebrate animal of the class Mammalia.
Mammoth
A mammoth is any species of the extinct elephantid genus Mammuthus. They lived from the late Miocene epoch (from around 6.2 million years ago) into the Holocene about 4,000 years ago, and various species existed in Africa, Europe, Asia, and North America.
Mandagery Sandstone
The Mandagery Sandstone is a Late Devonian geological formation in New South Wales, Australia. Lagerstätte and Mandagery Sandstone are lagerstätten.
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Mangrullo Formation
The Mangrullo Formation is an Early Permian (Artinskian) fossiliferous geological formation in northeastern Uruguay. Lagerstätte and Mangrullo Formation are lagerstätten.
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Manitoba
Manitoba is a province of Canada at the longitudinal centre of the country.
Manitoulin District
Manitoulin District is a district in Northeastern Ontario within the Canadian province of Ontario.
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Maotianshan Shales
The Maotianshan Shales are a series of Early Cambrian sedimentary deposits in the Chiungchussu Formation, famous for their Konservat Lagerstätten, deposits known for the exceptional preservation of fossilized organisms or traces. Lagerstätte and Maotianshan Shales are lagerstätten.
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Mare aux Songes
The Mare aux Songes (English: "sea of taro") swamp is a lagerstätte located close to the sea in south eastern Mauritius. Lagerstätte and Mare aux Songes are lagerstätten.
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Marine reptile
Marine reptiles are reptiles which have become secondarily adapted for an aquatic or semiaquatic life in a marine environment.
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Marjum Formation
The Marjum Formation is a Cambrian geological formation that overlies the Wheeler Shale in the House Range, Utah.
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Marshalltown Formation
The Marshalltown Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation.
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Massif Central
The is a highland region in south-central France, consisting of mountains and plateaus.
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Mauriciosaurus
Mauriciosaurus (meaning "Mauricio reptile") is a genus of polycotylid plesiosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Mexico.
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Mauritius
Mauritius, officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean, about off the southeastern coast of East Africa, east of Madagascar.
Mazon Creek fossil beds
The Mazon Creek fossil beds are a conservation lagerstätte found near Morris, in Grundy County, Illinois. Lagerstätte and Mazon Creek fossil beds are lagerstätten.
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McAbee Fossil Beds
The McAbee Fossil Beds is a Heritage Site that protects an Eocene Epoch fossil locality east of Cache Creek, British Columbia, Canada, just north of and visible from Provincial Highway 97 / the Trans-Canada Highway (Highway 1). Lagerstätte and McAbee Fossil Beds are lagerstätten.
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McGraths Flat
McGraths Flat is an Australian research site containing fossils and other evidence of animals and plants that existed in Miocene Australia. Lagerstätte and McGraths Flat are lagerstätten.
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Megafauna
In zoology, megafauna (from Greek μέγας megas "large" and Neo-Latin fauna "animal life") are large animals.
Megalodon
Otodus megalodon (meaning "big tooth"), commonly known as megalodon, is an extinct species of giant mackerel shark that lived approximately 23 to 3.6 million years ago (Mya), from the Early Miocene to the Pliocene epochs.
Mei long
Mei (from l) is a genus of duck-sized troodontid dinosaur first unearthed by paleontologists from the Yixian Formation in Liaoning, China in 2004.
Meiobenthos
Meiobenthos, also called meiofauna, are small benthic invertebrates that live in marine or freshwater environments, or both.
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Meiolania
Meiolania is an extinct genus of meiolaniid stem-turtle native to Australasia throughout much of the Cenozoic.
Mesosaur
Mesosaurs ("middle lizards") were a group of small aquatic reptiles that lived during the early Permian period (Cisuralian), roughly 299 to 270 million years ago.
Mesozoic
The Mesozoic Era is the penultimate era of Earth's geological history, lasting from about, comprising the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods.
Messel Formation
The Messel Formation is a geologic formation in Hesse, central Germany, dating back to the Eocene epoch (about 47 Ma).
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Messel pit
The Messel pit (Grube Messel) is a disused quarry near the village of Messel (Landkreis Darmstadt-Dieburg, Hesse) about southeast of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Lagerstätte and Messel pit are lagerstätten.
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Mexican amber
Mexican amber, also known as Chiapas Amber is amber found in Mexico, created during the Early Miocene and middle Miocene epochs of the Cenozoic Era in southwestern North America. Lagerstätte and Mexican amber are lagerstätten.
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Mexico
Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America.
Microbial mat
A microbial mat is a multi-layered sheet of microorganisms, mainly bacteria and archaea, or bacteria alone.
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Microfossil
A microfossil is a fossil that is generally between 0.001 mm and 1 mm in size, the visual study of which requires the use of light or electron microscopy.
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Microraptor
Microraptor (Greek, μικρός, mīkros: "small"; Latin, raptor: "one who seizes") is a genus of small, four-winged dromaeosaurid dinosaurs.
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Miguasha National Park
Miguasha Provincial Park (French: Parc national de Miguasha) is a protected area near Carleton-sur-Mer on the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec in Canada.
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Million years ago
Million years ago, abbreviated as Mya, Myr (megayear) or Ma (megaannum), is a unit of time equal to (i.e. years), or approximately 31.6 teraseconds.
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Miocene
The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).
Mississippi
Mississippi is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.
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Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve
Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve is a wilderness area and a UNESCO World Heritage Site located at the southeastern tip of Newfoundland's Avalon Peninsula in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
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Mollusca
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals, after Arthropoda; members are known as molluscs or mollusks.
Moltrasio Formation
The Moltrasio Formation also known as the Lombardische Kieselkalk Formation is a geological formation in Italy and Switzerland.
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Montana
Montana is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.
Monte Bolca
Monte Bolca is a lagerstätte near Verona, Italy that was one of the first fossil sites with high quality preservation known to Europeans, and is still an important source of fossils from the Eocene. Lagerstätte and Monte Bolca are lagerstätten.
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Morocco
Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.
Morris, Illinois
Morris is a city in and the county seat of Grundy County, Illinois, United States and part of the southwest Chicago metropolitan area.
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Morrison Formation
The Morrison Formation is a distinctive sequence of Upper Jurassic sedimentary rock found in the western United States which has been the most fertile source of dinosaur fossils in North America. Lagerstätte and Morrison Formation are lagerstätten.
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Mors (island)
Mors or Morsø (the latter more formal) is an island in the shallow sound called Limfjorden within Denmark's Jutland peninsula.
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Mosasaur
Mosasaurs (from Latin Mosa meaning the 'Meuse', and Greek σαύρος sauros meaning 'lizard') are an extinct group of large aquatic reptiles within the family Mosasauridae that lived during the Late Cretaceous.
Mudstone
Mudstone, a type of mudrock, is a fine-grained sedimentary rock whose original constituents were clays or muds.
Multicellular organism
A multicellular organism is an organism that consists of more than one cell, unlike unicellular organisms.
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Mummy
A mummy is a dead human or an animal whose soft tissues and organs have been preserved by either intentional or accidental exposure to chemicals, extreme cold, very low humidity, or lack of air, so that the recovered body does not decay further if kept in cool and dry conditions.
Muschelkalk
The Muschelkalk (German for "shell-bearing limestone"; calcaire coquillier) is a sequence of sedimentary rock strata (a lithostratigraphic unit) in the geology of central and western Europe.
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Museum
A museum is an institution dedicated to displaying and/or preserving culturally or scientifically significant objects.
Myanmar
Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma (the official name until 1989), is a country in Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million. It is bordered by Bangladesh and India to its northwest, China to its northeast, Laos and Thailand to its east and southeast, and the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal to its south and southwest.
Nambaroo
Nambaroo is an extinct genus of macropod marsupial from the late Oligocene to the early Miocene of Australia.
Namur Province
Namur (Namen; Nameur) is a province of Wallonia, one of the three regions of Belgium.
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Naracoorte Caves National Park
Naracoorte Caves National Park is a national park near Naracoorte in the Limestone Coast tourism region in the south-east of South Australia (Australia).
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Naraoia
Naraoia is a genus of small to average size (about 2-4½ cm long) marine arthropods within the family Naraoiidae, that lived from the early Cambrian to the late Silurian period.
National Science Review
National Science Review (Chinese title: 国家科学评论) is an English-language peer-reviewed multidisciplinary open-access scientific journal published by Oxford University Press under the auspices of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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Nature (journal)
Nature is a British weekly scientific journal founded and based in London, England.
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Nature Ecology and Evolution
Nature Ecology and Evolution is an online-only monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Nature Portfolio covering all aspects of research on ecology and evolutionary biology.
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Nebraska
Nebraska is a triply landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
Nematode
The nematodes (or; Νηματώδη; Nematoda), roundworms or eelworms constitute the phylum Nematoda.
Neoproterozoic
The Neoproterozoic Era is the unit of geologic time from 1 billion to 538.8 million years ago.
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Netherlands
The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.
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Neuquén Province
Neuquén is a province of Argentina, located in the west of the country, at the northern end of Patagonia.
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Nevada
Nevada is a landlocked state in the Western region of the United States.
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state situated within both the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States.
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New Jersey amber
New Jersey Amber, sometimes called Raritan amber, is amber found in the Raritan and Magothy Formations of the Central Atlantic (Eastern) coast of the United States. Lagerstätte and New Jersey amber are lagerstätten.
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New Mexico
New Mexico (Nuevo MéxicoIn Peninsular Spanish, a spelling variant, Méjico, is also used alongside México. According to the Diccionario panhispánico de dudas by Royal Spanish Academy and Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, the spelling version with J is correct; however, the spelling with X is recommended, as it is the one that is used in Mexican Spanish.; Yootó Hahoodzo) is a state in the Southwestern region of the United States.
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New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
The New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science is a natural history and science museum in Albuquerque, New Mexico near Old Town Albuquerque.
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New South Wales
New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.
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New York (state)
New York, also called New York State, is a state in the Northeastern United States.
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Ngorora Formation
The Ngorora Formation is a geological formation in Kenya preserving fossils dating to the Miocene.
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Nodule (geology)
In sedimentology and geology, a nodule is a small, irregularly rounded knot, mass, or lump of a mineral or mineral aggregate that typically has a contrasting composition, such as a pyrite nodule in coal, a chert nodule in limestone, or a phosphorite nodule in marine shale, from the enclosing sediment or sedimentary rock.
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Norian
The Norian is a division of the Triassic Period.
North Dakota
North Dakota is a landlocked U.S. state in the Upper Midwest, named after the indigenous Dakota Sioux.
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North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia or North-Rhine/Westphalia, commonly shortened to NRW, is a state (Land) in Western Germany. With more than 18 million inhabitants, it is the most populous state in Germany. Apart from the city-states, it is also the most densely populated state in Germany. Covering an area of, it is the fourth-largest German state by size.
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Northern Territory
The Northern Territory (abbreviated as NT; known formally as the Northern Territory of Australia and informally as the Territory) is an Australian internal territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia.
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Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia is a province of Canada, located on its east coast.
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Nuevo León
Nuevo León (English: New León), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Nuevo León (Spanish: Estado Libre y Soberano de Nuevo León) is a state in northeastern Mexico.
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Obukhov Formation
The Obukhov Formation is a geologic formation in Belarus and Ukraine that dates to the Late Eocene; the Obukhov Formation is equivalent to the Prussian Formation of Russia.
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Occitania (administrative region)
Occitania is the southernmost administrative region of metropolitan France excluding Corsica, created on 1 January 2016 from the former regions of Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrénées.
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Octopus
An octopus (octopuses or octopodes) is a soft-bodied, eight-limbed mollusc of the order Octopoda. The order consists of some 300 species and is grouped within the class Cephalopoda with squids, cuttlefish, and nautiloids.
Ohio
Ohio is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
Oil shale
Oil shale is an organic-rich fine-grained sedimentary rock containing kerogen (a solid mixture of organic chemical compounds) from which liquid hydrocarbons can be produced.
Olenekian
In the geologic timescale, the Olenekian is an age in the Early Triassic epoch; in chronostratigraphy, it is a stage in the Lower Triassic series.
Oligochaeta
Oligochaeta is a subclass of soft-bodied animals in the phylum Annelida, which is made up of many types of aquatic and terrestrial worms, including all of the various earthworms.
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Ontario
Ontario is the southernmost province of Canada.
Orapa diamond mine
The Orapa diamond mine is the world's largest diamond mine by area.
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Order (biology)
Order (ordo) is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.
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Ordovician
The Ordovician is a geologic period and system, the second of six periods of the Paleozoic Era.
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Orenburg Oblast
Orenburg Oblast (Orenburgskaya oblast') is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), mainly located in Eastern Europe.
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Organ (biology)
In a multicellular organism, an organ is a collection of tissues joined in a structural unit to serve a common function.
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Orsten
The Orsten fauna are fossilized organisms preserved in the Orsten lagerstätte of Cambrian (Late Miaolingian to Furongian) rocks, notably at Kinnekulle and on the island of Öland, all in Sweden.
Oryctocephalus indicus
Oryctocephalus indicus is a species of corynexochid trilobite from the Cambrian.
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Osteichthyes
Osteichthyes, also known as osteichthyans or commonly referred to as the bony fish, is a diverse superclass of vertebrate animals that have endoskeletons primarily composed of bone tissue.
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Otago
Otago (Ōtākou) is a region of New Zealand located in the southern half of the South Island administered by the Otago Regional Council.
Owadów–Brzezinki site
The Owadów–Brzezinki site is a Jurassic fossil-bearing deposit cropping out in a quarry near the village of Owadów in central Poland.
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Oyster
Oyster is the common name for a number of different families of salt-water bivalve molluscs that live in marine or brackish habitats.
Padillasaurus
Padillasaurus is an extinct genus of titanosauriform sauropod known from the Early Cretaceous (Barremian stage) Paja Formation in Colombia.
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Paja Formation
The Paja Formation (Formación Paja, K1p, Kip, Kimp, b3b6p) is an Early Cretaceous geologic formation of central Colombia.
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Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology ("Palaeo3") is a peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing multidisciplinary studies and comprehensive reviews in the field of palaeoenvironmental geology.
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Palaeontological Association
The Palaeontological Association (PalAss for short) is a charitable organisation based in the UK founded in 1957 for the promotion of the study of palaeontology and its allied sciences.
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PALAIOS
PALAIOS is a bimonthly academic journal dedicated to the study of the impact of life on Earth history, combining the fields of palaeontology and sedimentology.
Paleocene
The Paleocene, or Palaeocene, is a geological epoch that lasted from about 66 to 56 million years ago (mya).
Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum
The Paleocene–Eocene thermal maximum (PETM), alternatively ”Eocene thermal maximum 1 (ETM1)“ and formerly known as the "Initial Eocene" or “Late Paleocene thermal maximum", was a geologically brief time interval characterized by a 5–8 °C global average temperature rise and massive input of carbon into the ocean and atmosphere.
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Paleoecology
Paleoecology (also spelled palaeoecology) is the study of interactions between organisms and/or interactions between organisms and their environments across geologic timescales.
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Paleontology
Paleontology, also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present).
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Paleozoic
The Paleozoic (or Palaeozoic) Era is the first of three geological eras of the Phanerozoic Eon.
PalZ
PalZ (formerly Paläontologische Zeitschrift) is an international, peer-reviewed periodical focused on palaeontology and published by the palaeontological society of Germany (Paläontologische Gesellschaft).
Paratethys
The Paratethys sea, Paratethys ocean, Paratethys realm or just Paratethys was a large shallow inland sea that stretched from the region north of the Alps over Central Europe to the Aral Sea in Central Asia.
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Paris biota
The Paris biota is an exceptionally diverse Early Triassic (approximately 249 million years ago) fossil assemblage described in 2017 from the Lower Shale Member of the Thaynes Group. Lagerstätte and Paris biota are lagerstätten.
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Parker Slate
The Parker Slate is a geologic formation in Vermont.
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Patagonia
Patagonia is a geographical region that encompasses the southern end of South America, governed by Argentina and Chile.
Penguin
Penguins are a group of aquatic flightless birds from the family Spheniscidae of the order Sphenisciformes.
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania Dutch), is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States.
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Pennsylvanian (geology)
The Pennsylvanian (also known as Upper Carboniferous or Late Carboniferous) is, on the ICS geologic timescale, the younger of two subperiods of the Carboniferous Period (or the upper of two subsystems of the Carboniferous System).
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Pensoft Publishers
Pensoft Publishers (also known as: Pensoft) are a publisher of scientific literature based in Sofia, Bulgaria.
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Pentastomida
The Pentastomida are an enigmatic group of parasitic arthropods commonly known as tongue worms due to the resemblance of the species of the genus Linguatula to a vertebrate tongue; molecular studies point to them being highly-derived crustaceans.
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Perm, Russia
Perm (Пермь,; Перем; Перым), previously known as Yagoshikha (label; 1723–1781) and Molotov (label; 1940–1957), is the administrative centre of Perm Krai in the European part of Russia.
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Permian–Triassic extinction event
Approximately 251.9 million years ago, the Permian–Triassic (P–T, P–Tr) extinction event (PTME; also known as the Late Permian extinction event, the Latest Permian extinction event, the End-Permian extinction event, and colloquially as the Great Dying) forms the boundary between the Permian and Triassic geologic periods, and with them the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras.
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Permineralization
Permineralization is a process of fossilization of bones and tissues in which mineral deposits form internal casts of organisms.
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Petrified wood
Petrified wood (from Ancient Greek πέτρα meaning 'rock' or 'stone'; literally 'wood turned into stone'), is the name given to a special type of fossilized wood, the fossilized remains of terrestrial vegetation.
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Phosphate mineral
Phosphate minerals are minerals that contain the tetrahedrally coordinated phosphate anion, sometimes with arsenate and vanadate substitutions, along with chloride (Cl−), fluoride (F−), and hydroxide (OH−) anions, that also fit into the crystal structure.
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Phosphatization
Phosphatization, or phosphatic fossilization, refers to the process of fossilization where organic matter is replaced by abundant calcium-phosphate minerals.
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Phosphatocopina
Phosphatocopina (alternatively Phosphatocopida) is an extinct group of bivalved arthropods known from the Cambrian period.
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Phyllocarida
Phyllocarida is a subclass of crustaceans, comprising the extant order Leptostraca and the extinct orders Hymenostraca and Archaeostraca.
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Phylogenetics
In biology, phylogenetics is the study of the evolutionary history and relationships among or within groups of organisms.
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Phylum
In biology, a phylum (phyla) is a level of classification or taxonomic rank below kingdom and above class.
Pietraroja Plattenkalk
The Pietraroia Plattenkalk is a Cretaceous geologic formation located in the Italian municipality of Pietraroja, near Benevento, in Campania region. Lagerstätte and Pietraroja Plattenkalk are lagerstätten.
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Pisco Formation
The Pisco Formation is a geologic formation located in Peru, on the southern coastal desert of Ica and Arequipa. Lagerstätte and Pisco Formation are lagerstätten.
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Placoderm
Placoderms (from Greek πλάξ (plax, plakos) 'plate' and δέρμα (derma) 'skin') are vertebrate animals of the class Placodermi, an extinct group of prehistoric fish known from Paleozoic fossils during the Silurian and the Devonian periods.
Plattenkalk
Plattenkalk is a very finely grained limestone chemically precipitated in a stratified water column under conditions where bioturbation does not occur.
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Pleistocene
The Pleistocene (often referred to colloquially as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch that lasted from to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations.
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Plesiosaur
The Plesiosauria (Greek: πλησίος, plesios, meaning "near to" and ''sauros'', meaning "lizard") or plesiosaurs are an order or clade of extinct Mesozoic marine reptiles, belonging to the Sauropterygia.
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Pliocene
The Pliocene (also Pleiocene) is the epoch in the geologic time scale that extends from 5.333 million to 2.58 million years ago.
Pliosauroidea
Pliosauroidea is an extinct clade of plesiosaurs, known from the earliest Jurassic to early Late Cretaceous.
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PLOS One
PLOS One (stylized PLOS ONE, and formerly PLoS ONE) is a peer-reviewed open access mega journal published by the Public Library of Science (PLOS) since 2006.
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe.
Polar regions of Earth
The polar regions, also called the frigid zones or polar zones, of Earth are Earth's polar ice caps, the regions of the planet that surround its geographical poles (the North and South Poles), lying within the polar circles.
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Poleta Formation
The Poleta Formation is a geological unit known for the exceptional fossil preservation in the Indian Springs Lagerstätte, located in eastern California and Nevada. Lagerstätte and Poleta Formation are lagerstätten.
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Pomeranian Voivodeship
Pomeranian Voivodeship (Województwo pomorskie; Pòmòrsczé wòjewództwò) is a voivodeship, or province, in northwestern Poland.
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Pompeii
Pompeii was an ancient city in what is now the comune (municipality) of Pompei, near Naples, in the Campania region of Italy.
Posidonia Shale
The Posidonia Shale (Posidonienschiefer, also called Schistes Bitumineux in Luxembourg) geologically known as the Sachrang Formation, is an Early Jurassic (Early to Late Toarcian) geological formation of southwestern and northeast Germany, northern Switzerland, northwestern Austria, southern Luxembourg and the Netherlands, including exceptionally well-preserved complete skeletons of fossil marine fish and reptiles. Lagerstätte and Posidonia Shale are lagerstätten.
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Precambrian
The Precambrian (or Pre-Cambrian, sometimes abbreviated pC, or Cryptozoic) is the earliest part of Earth's history, set before the current Phanerozoic Eon.
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Precambrian Research
Precambrian Research is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering the geology of the Earth and its planetary neighbors.
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Priabonian
The Priabonian is, in the ICS's geologic timescale, the latest age or the upper stage of the Eocene Epoch or Series.
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Prince Charles Mountains
The Prince Charles Mountains are a major group of mountains in Mac. Robertson Land in Antarctica, including the Athos Range, the Porthos Range, and the Aramis Range.
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Princeton Chert
The Princeton Chert is a fossil locality in British Columbia, Canada, which comprises an anatomically preserved flora of Eocene Epoch age, with rich species abundance and diversity. Lagerstätte and Princeton Chert are lagerstätten.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (often abbreviated PNAS or PNAS USA) is a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary scientific journal.
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Provence
Provence is a geographical region and historical province of southeastern France, which extends from the left bank of the lower Rhône to the west to the Italian border to the east; it is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the south.
Province of Cuenca
Cuenca is one of the five provinces of the autonomous community of Castilla-La Mancha.
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Prussian Formation
The Prussian Formation, previously known as the Amber Formation, is a geologic formation in Prussia, today mostly Kaliningrad Oblast that dates to the Eocene.
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Psittacosaurus
Psittacosaurus ("parrot lizard") is a genus of extinct ceratopsian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of what is now Asia, existing between 125 and 105 million years ago.
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Pteranodon
Pteranodon; from Ancient Greek πτερόν (pteron 'wing') and ἀνόδων (anodous, anodontos 'toothless') is a genus of pterosaur that included some of the largest known flying reptiles, with P. longiceps having a wingspan of over.
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Pterosaur
Pterosaurs (from Greek pteron and sauros, meaning "wing lizard") are an extinct clade of flying reptiles in the order Pterosauria.
Puebla
Puebla (colony, settlement), officially Free and Sovereign State of Puebla (Estado Libre y Soberano de Puebla), is one of the 32 states which comprise the Federal Entities of Mexico.
Purlawaugh Formation
The Purlawaugh Formation is a Toarcian to Oxfordian geologic formation of New South Wales, Australia.
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Pyrite
The mineral pyrite, or iron pyrite, also known as fool's gold, is an iron sulfide with the chemical formula FeS2 (iron (II) disulfide).
Pyroclastic rock
Pyroclastic rocks are clastic rocks composed of rock fragments produced and ejected by explosive volcanic eruptions.
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Qingjiang biota
The Qingjiang biota are a major discovery of fossilized remains dating from the early Cambrian period approximately 518 million years ago. Lagerstätte and Qingjiang biota are lagerstätten.
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Queensland
Queensland (commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a state in northeastern Australia, the second-largest and third-most populous of the Australian states.
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Quercy Phosphorites Formation
The Quercy Phosphorites Formation (French: Phosphorites du Quercy) is a geologic formation and lagerstätte in Occitanie, southern France. Lagerstätte and Quercy Phosphorites Formation are lagerstätten.
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Raritan Formation
The Raritan Formation is a Cretaceous (Turonian) sedimentary geologic formation of the Atlantic Coastal Plain.
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Red panda
The red panda (Ailurus fulgens), also known as the lesser panda, is a small mammal native to the eastern Himalayas and southwestern China.
Red River Formation
The Red River Formation is a stratigraphical unit of Late Ordovician age in the Williston Basin.
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Redox
Redox (reduction–oxidation or oxidation–reduction) is a type of chemical reaction in which the oxidation states of the reactants change.
Reef
A reef is a ridge or shoal of rock, coral, or similar relatively stable material lying beneath the surface of a natural body of water.
Reingrabener Schiefer
The Reingrabener Schiefer (other names Reingraben Shales, „Halobienschiefer“) is a lithostratigraphic unit, often described as independent geologic formation, or as a member of Lunz Formation.
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Reptiliomorpha
Reptiliomorpha (meaning reptile-shaped; in PhyloCode known as Pan-Amniota) is a clade containing the amniotes and those tetrapods that share a more recent common ancestor with amniotes than with living amphibians (lissamphibians).
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Retinal
Retinal (also known as retinaldehyde) is a polyene chromophore.
Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology
Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal of palaeobotany and palynology established in 1967.
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Rhineland-Palatinate
Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz; Rheinland-Pfalz; Rhoilond-Palz) is a western state of Germany.
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Rhinoceros
A rhinoceros (rhinoceros or rhinoceroses), commonly abbreviated to rhino, is a member of any of the five extant species (or numerous extinct species) of odd-toed ungulates in the family Rhinocerotidae; it can also refer to a member of any of the extinct species of the superfamily Rhinocerotoidea.
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Rhynie chert
The Rhynie chert is a Lower Devonian sedimentary deposit exhibiting extraordinary fossil detail or completeness (a Lagerstätte). Lagerstätte and Rhynie chert are lagerstätten.
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Rhyolite
Rhyolite is the most silica-rich of volcanic rocks.
Riversleigh World Heritage Area
Riversleigh World Heritage Area is Australia's most famous fossil location, recognised for the series of well preserved fossils deposited from the Late Oligocene to more recent geological periods. Lagerstätte and Riversleigh World Heritage Area are lagerstätten.
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Rivne Oblast
Rivne Oblast (translit), also referred to as Rivnenshchyna (translit), is an oblast (province) in western Ukraine.
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Romualdo Formation
The Romualdo Formation is a geologic Konservat-Lagerstätte in northeastern Brazil's Araripe Basin where the states of Pernambuco, Piauí and Ceará come together.
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Rotifer
The rotifers (from the Latin rota, "wheel", and -fer, "bearing"), commonly called wheel animals or wheel animalcules, make up a phylum (Rotifera) of microscopic and near-microscopic pseudocoelomate animals.
Rovno amber
Rivne amber, occasionally called Ukrainian amber, is amber found in the Rivne Oblast and surrounding regions of Ukraine and Belarus. Lagerstätte and Rovno amber are lagerstätten.
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Russia
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.
Sabkha
A sabkha (سبخة) is a coastal, supratidal mudflat or sandflat in which evaporite-saline minerals accumulate as the result of semiarid to arid climate.
Saccorhytus
Saccorhytus (from Latin saccus "bag" and Ancient Greek ῥύτις rhytis "wrinkle") is an extinct genus of animal possibly belonging to the superphylum Ecdysozoa, and it is represented by a single species, Saccorhytus coronarius (from Latin attributive coronarius " crown").
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Sakha Republic
Sakha, officially the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), is the largest republic of Russia, located in the Russian Far East, along the Arctic Ocean, with a population of one million.
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Sakmarian
In the geologic timescale, the Sakmarian is an age or stage of the Permian period.
Salamander
Salamanders are a group of amphibians typically characterized by their lizard-like appearance, with slender bodies, blunt snouts, short limbs projecting at right angles to the body, and the presence of a tail in both larvae and adults.
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San Rafael Swell
The San Rafael Swell is a large geologic feature located in south-central Utah, United States about west of Green River.
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Sandbian
The Sandbian is the first stage of the Upper Ordovician.
Sannine Formation
The Sannine Formation, also called the Sannine Limestone, is a Cretaceous geologic formation in Lebanon. Lagerstätte and Sannine Formation are lagerstätten.
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Santana Group
The Santana Group is a geologic group, formerly included as the middle part of the Araripe Group, in the Araripe Basin of northeastern Brazil.
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Santonian
The Santonian is an age in the geologic timescale or a chronostratigraphic stage.
Sarcopterygii
Sarcopterygii — sometimes considered synonymous with Crossopterygii — is a clade (traditionally a class or subclass) including both a group of bony fish commonly referred to as lobe-finned fish, and tetrapods.
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Sardinia
Sardinia (Sardegna; Sardigna) is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, and one of the twenty regions of Italy.
Sauropoda
Sauropoda, whose members are known as sauropods (from sauro- + -pod, 'lizard-footed'), is a clade of saurischian ('lizard-hipped') dinosaurs.
Sauropsida
Sauropsida (Greek for "lizard faces") is a clade of amniotes, broadly equivalent to the class Reptilia, though typically used in a broader sense to also include extinct stem-group relatives of modern reptiles and birds (which, as theropod dinosaurs, are nested within reptiles as more closely related to crocodilians than to lizards or turtles).
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Saxony
Saxony, officially the Free State of Saxony, is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland and the Czech Republic.
Science Advances
Science Advances is a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary open-access scientific journal established in early 2015 and published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports is a peer-reviewed open-access scientific mega journal published by Nature Portfolio, covering all areas of the natural sciences.
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Scipionyx
Scipionyx was a genus of theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Pietraroja Formation of Italy, around 113 million years ago.
Sclerosis (medicine)
Sclerosis is the stiffening of a tissue or anatomical feature, usually caused by a replacement of the normal organ-specific tissue with connective tissue.
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Scotland
Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
Scyphozoa
The Scyphozoa are an exclusively marine class of the phylum Cnidaria, referred to as the true jellyfish (or "true jellies").
Sea spider
Sea spiders are marine arthropods of the order Pantopoda (‘all feet’), belonging to the class Pycnogonida, hence they are also called pycnogonids (named after Pycnogonum, the type genus; with the suffix). They are cosmopolitan, found in oceans around the world.
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Seahorse
A seahorse (also written sea-horse and sea horse) is any of 46 species of small marine bony fish in the genus Hippocampus.
Sediment
Sediment is a naturally occurring material that is broken down by processes of weathering and erosion, and is subsequently transported by the action of wind, water, or ice or by the force of gravity acting on the particles.
Sedimentary Geology (journal)
Sedimentary Geology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal about sediments in a geological context published by Elsevier.
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Sedimentary rock
Sedimentary rocks are types of rock that are formed by the accumulation or deposition of mineral or organic particles at Earth's surface, followed by cementation.
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Sedimentation
Sedimentation is the deposition of sediments.
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Sequoia affinis
Sequoia affinis is an extinct species of the genus Sequoia in the cypress family Cupressaceae.
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Seymouriamorpha
Seymouriamorpha were a small but widespread group of limbed vertebrates (tetrapods).
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Shaanxi
Shaanxi is an inland province in Northwestern China.
Shale
Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock formed from mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolin, Al2Si2O5(OH)4) and tiny fragments (silt-sized particles) of other minerals, especially quartz and calcite.
Shandong
Shandong is a coastal province in East China.
Shanshan County
Shanshan County as the official romanized name, also transliterated from Uyghur as Piqan County, is a county within the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and is under the administrative jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city of Turpan.
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Shantungosaurus
Shantungosaurus (meaning "Shandong Lizard") is a genus of very large saurolophine hadrosaurid dinosaur found in the Late Cretaceous Wangshi Group of the Shandong Peninsula in China, containing a single species, Shantungosaurus giganteus.
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Shanwang National Geological Park
The Shanwang National Geology Park is located in central Shandong province, People's Republic of China, about from Linqu County.
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Shark
Sharks are a group of elasmobranch fish characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton, five to seven gill slits on the sides of the head, and pectoral fins that are not fused to the head.
Shengjinkou Formation
The Shengjinkou Formation is an Early Cretaceous (Aptian)-aged Konservat-Lagerstätte composed of "interbedded red green and yellow variegated mudstones and siltstones" that is part of the larger Tugulu Group of China.
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Shrimp
A shrimp (shrimp (US) or shrimps (UK) is a crustacean (a form of shellfish) with an elongated body and a primarily swimming mode of locomotion – typically belonging to the Caridea or Dendrobranchiata of the order Decapoda, although some crustaceans outside of this order are also referred to as "shrimp".
Siderite
Siderite is a mineral composed of iron(II) carbonate (FeCO3).
Silicification
In geology, silicification is a petrification process in which silica-rich fluids seep into the voids of Earth materials, e.g., rocks, wood, bones, shells, and replace the original materials with silica (SiO2).
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Silurian
The Silurian is a geologic period and system spanning 24.6 million years from the end of the Ordovician Period, at million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Devonian Period, Mya.
Simon Conway Morris
Simon Conway Morris (born 1951) is an English palaeontologist, evolutionary biologist, and astrobiologist known for his study of the fossils of the Burgess Shale and the Cambrian explosion.
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Sinkhole
A sinkhole is a depression or hole in the ground caused by some form of collapse of the surface layer.
Sinosauropteryx
Sinosauropteryx (meaning "Chinese reptilian wing") is a compsognathid dinosaur.
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Sirius Passet
Sirius Passet is a Cambrian Lagerstätte in Peary Land, Greenland. Lagerstätte and Sirius Passet are lagerstätten.
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Slovenia
Slovenia (Slovenija), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene), is a country in southern Central Europe.
Smilodon
Smilodon is a genus of felids belonging to the extinct subfamily Machairodontinae.
Smoky Hill Chalk
The Smoky Hill Chalk Member of the Niobrara Chalk formation is a Cretaceous conservation Lagerstätte, or fossil rich geological formation, known primarily for its exceptionally well-preserved marine reptiles. Lagerstätte and Smoky Hill Chalk are lagerstätten.
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Société botanique de France
The Société botanique de France (SBF) is a French learned society founded on 23 April 1854.
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Solnhofen Limestone
The Solnhofen Limestone or Solnhofen Plattenkalk, formally known as the Altmühltal Formation, is a Jurassic Konservat-Lagerstätte that preserves a rare assemblage of fossilized organisms, including highly detailed imprints of soft bodied organisms such as sea jellies.
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Somerset
Somerset (archaically Somersetshire) is a ceremonial county in South West England.
Soom Shale
The Soom Shale is a member of the Late Ordovician (Hirnantian) Cederberg Formation (Table Mountain Group) in South Africa, renowned for its remarkable preservation of soft-tissue in fossil material. Lagerstätte and Soom Shale are lagerstätten.
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South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.
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South America
South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere.
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South Australia
South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia.
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South Dakota
South Dakota (Sioux: Dakȟóta itókaga) is a landlocked state in the North Central region of the United States.
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South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia.
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Southern District (Israel)
The Southern District (מחוז הדרום, Meḥoz HaDarom; لواء الجنوب) is one of Israel's six administrative districts, the largest in terms of land area but the most sparsely populated.
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Spain
Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.
Spence Shale
The Spence Shale is the middle member of the Langston Formation in southeastern Idaho and northeastern Utah.
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Sponge
Sponges (also known as sea sponges), the members of the phylum Porifera (meaning 'pore bearer'), are a basal animal clade as a sister of the diploblasts.
Squamata
Squamata (Latin squamatus, 'scaly, having scales') is the largest order of reptiles, comprising lizards and snakes.
Starfish
Starfish or sea stars are star-shaped echinoderms belonging to the class Asteroidea.
Stary Waliszów
Stary Waliszów is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Bystrzyca Kłodzka, within Kłodzko County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.
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Stony Mountain Formation
The Stony Mountain Formation is a stratigraphical unit of Ashgill age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.
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Stratum
In geology and related fields, a stratum (strata) is a layer of rock or sediment characterized by certain lithologic properties or attributes that distinguish it from adjacent layers from which it is separated by visible surfaces known as either bedding surfaces or bedding planes.
Strud
Strud is a hamlet of the village of Haltinne, Wallonia, located in the municipality of Gesves, province of Namur, Belgium.
Strudiella
Strudiella devonica is a species of extinct arthropod from the Devonian.
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Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe.
Switzerland
Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe.
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Synapsida
Synapsida is one of the two major clades of vertebrate animals in the group Amniota, the other being the Sauropsida (which includes reptiles and birds).
Tafilalt
Tafilalt or Tafilet (تافيلالت), historically Sijilmasa, is a region of Morocco, centered on its largest oasis.
Talbragar fossil site
The Talbragar fossil site is a paleontological site of Late Jurassic (Tithonian) age in the central west of New South Wales, Australia.
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Tanis (fossil site)
Tanis is a paleontological site in southwestern North Dakota, United States. Lagerstätte and Tanis (fossil site) are lagerstätten.
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Taphonomy
Taphonomy is the study of how organisms decay and become fossilized or preserved in the paleontological record.
Tapir
Tapirs are large, herbivorous mammals belonging to the family Tapiridae.
Tar pit
Tar pits, sometimes referred to as asphalt pits, are large asphalt deposits.
Taxon
In biology, a taxon (back-formation from taxonomy;: taxa) is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit.
Taxonomy
Taxonomy is a practice and science concerned with classification or categorization.
Temnospondyli
Temnospondyli (from Greek τέμνειν, temnein 'to cut' and σπόνδυλος, spondylos 'vertebra') or temnospondyls is a diverse ancient order of small to giant tetrapods—often considered primitive amphibians—that flourished worldwide during the Carboniferous, Permian and Triassic periods, with fossils being found on every continent.
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Tenejapa-Lacandón Formation
The Tenejapa-Lacandón Formation is a geological formation and lagerstätte in southern Mexico and western Guatemala. Lagerstätte and Tenejapa-Lacandón Formation are lagerstätten.
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Tennessee
Tennessee, officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States.
Tethys Ocean
The Tethys Ocean (Τηθύς), also called the Tethys Sea or the Neo-Tethys, was a prehistoric ocean during much of the Mesozoic Era and early-mid Cenozoic Era.
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Tetrapod
A tetrapod is any four-limbed vertebrate animal of the superclass Tetrapoda.
Texas
Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States.
Thalassodromeus
Thalassodromeus is a genus of pterosaur that lived in what is now Brazil during the Early Cretaceous period, about a hundred million years ago.
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Thalattosauria
Thalattosauria (Greek for "sea lizards") is an extinct order of marine reptiles that lived in the Middle to Late Triassic.
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The Mammoth Site
The Mammoth Site is a museum and paleontological site near Hot Springs, South Dakota, in the Black Hills.
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The Science of Nature
The Science of Nature, formerly Naturwissenschaften, is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Springer Science+Business Media covering all aspects of the natural sciences relating to questions of biological significance.
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Theropoda
Theropoda (from ancient Greek whose members are known as theropods, is a dinosaur clade that is characterized by hollow bones and three toes and claws on each limb. Theropods are generally classed as a group of saurischian dinosaurs. They were ancestrally carnivorous, although a number of theropod groups evolved to become herbivores and omnivores.
Thylacine
The thylacine (binomial name Thylacinus cynocephalus), also commonly known as the Tasmanian tiger or Tasmanian wolf, is an extinct carnivorous marsupial that was native to the Australian mainland and the islands of Tasmania and New Guinea.
Thylacocephala
The Thylacocephala (from the Greek θύλακος or thylakos, meaning "pouch", and κεφαλή or cephalon meaning "head") are group of extinct probable mandibulate arthropods, that have been considered by some researchers as having possible crustacean affinities.
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Thylacoleo
Thylacoleo ("pouch lion") is an extinct genus of carnivorous marsupials that lived in Australia from the late Pliocene to the Late Pleistocene (until around 40,000 years ago), often known as marsupial lions.
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Tianyuraptor
Tianyuraptor is a genus of short-armed dromaeosaurid dinosaur ('running lizard'; a type of small dinosaur considered to be closely related to birds) that lived during the Early Cretaceous, about 122 million years ago.
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Tiaojishan Formation
The Tiaojishan Formation is a geological formation in Hebei and Liaoning, People's Republic of China, dating to the middle-late Jurassic period (Bathonian-Oxfordian stages). Lagerstätte and Tiaojishan Formation are lagerstätten.
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Titanosauria
Titanosaurs (or titanosaurians; members of the group Titanosauria) were a diverse group of sauropod dinosaurs, including genera from all seven continents.
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Tlayúa Formation
The Tlayúa Formation is an Early Cretaceous (late Albian) geological formation near Tepexi de Rodríguez, Puebla.
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Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event
The Toarcian extinction event, also called the Pliensbachian-Toarcian extinction event, the Early Toarcian mass extinction, the Early Toarcian palaeoenvironmental crisis, or the Jenkyns Event, was an extinction event that occurred during the early part of the Toarcian age, approximately 183 million years ago, during the Early Jurassic.
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Tonoloway Formation
The Late Silurian Tonoloway Formation is a mapped limestone bedrock unit in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia.
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Toxodontia
Toxodontia is a suborder of the meridiungulate order Notoungulata.
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Trends (journals)
Trends is a series of 16 review journals in a range of areas of biology and chemistry published under its Cell Press imprint by Elsevier.
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Triassic–Jurassic extinction event
The Triassic–Jurassic (Tr-J) extinction event (TJME), often called the end-Triassic extinction, was a Mesozoic extinction event that marks the boundary between the Triassic and Jurassic periods,, and is one of the top five major extinction events of the Phanerozoic eon, profoundly affecting life on land and in the oceans.
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Tropical forest
Tropical forests are forested ecoregions with tropical climates – that is, land areas approximately bounded by the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, but possibly affected by other factors such as prevailing winds.
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Tuff
Tuff is a type of rock made of volcanic ash ejected from a vent during a volcanic eruption.
Tullimonstrum
Tullimonstrum, colloquially known as the Tully monster or sometimes Tully's monster, is an extinct genus of soft-bodied bilaterian animal that lived in shallow tropical coastal waters of muddy estuaries during the Pennsylvanian geological period, about 300 million years ago.
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Tunjice
Tunjice (TheinitzLeksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru, vol. 6: Kranjsko. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, p. 30.) is a dispersed settlement in the Tunjice Hills (Tunjiško gričevje) west of the town of Kamnik in Upper Carniola region of Slovenia.
Turkey
Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.
Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan is a country in Central Asia bordered by Kazakhstan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, east and northeast, Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the south and southwest and the Caspian Sea to the west.
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Turonian
The Turonian is, in the ICS' geologic timescale, the second age in the Late Cretaceous Epoch, or a stage in the Upper Cretaceous Series.
Turtle
Turtles are reptiles of the order Testudines, characterized by a special shell developed mainly from their ribs.
Typhloesus
Typhloesus wellsi is an extinct species of enigmatic bilaterian animals from the Bear Gulch Limestone.
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Ubirajara jubatus
"Ubirajara" ("lord of the spear") is an informal genus of compsognathid theropod that lived during the early Cretaceous period in what is now Brazil.
See Lagerstätte and Ubirajara jubatus
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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Upper Austria
Upper Austria (Oberösterreich; Obaöstareich, Horní Rakousy) is one of the nine states or Länder of Austria.
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Uruguay
Uruguay, officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay (República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America.
Utah
Utah is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.
Vallecillo Municipality
Vallecillo is a municipality located in the state of Nuevo León, in northeastern Mexico.
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Vampire squid
The vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis, lit. 'vampire squid from hell') is a small cephalopod found throughout temperate and tropical oceans in extreme deep sea conditions.
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Vampyronassa
Vampyronassa rhodanica ("vampire fish trap") is an extinct vampyromorph cephalopod known from around 20 fossils from the Lower Callovian (165–164 Ma) of La Voulte-sur-Rhône, Ardèche, France.
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Vermont
Vermont is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.
Verona
Verona (Verona or Veròna) is a city on the River Adige in Veneto, Italy, with 258,031 inhabitants.
Victoria (state)
Victoria (commonly abbreviated as Vic) is a state in southeastern Australia.
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Vinnytsia Oblast
Vinnytsia Oblast (translit), also referred to as Vinnychchyna (Вінниччина), is an oblast in central Ukraine.
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Virginia
Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.
Volcanic rock
Volcanic rocks (often shortened to volcanics in scientific contexts) are rocks formed from lava erupted from a volcano.
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Waco Mammoth National Monument
The Waco Mammoth National Monument is a paleontological site and museum in Waco, Texas, United States where fossils of 24 Columbian mammoths (Mammuthus columbi) and other mammals from the Pleistocene Epoch have been uncovered.
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Waco, Texas
Waco is a city in and the county seat of McLennan County, Texas, United States.
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Wadi Harrana
Wadi Harrana is a seasonal stream (wadi) in the eastern Jordanian Badia, about sixty kilometers southeast of the city of Amman.
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Walcott–Rust quarry
The Walcott–Rust quarry, in Herkimer County, New York, is an excellent example of an obrution (rapid burial or "smothered") Lagerstätte. Lagerstätte and Walcott–Rust quarry are lagerstätten.
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Wangshi Group
The Wangshi Group is a geological Group in Shandong, China whose strata date back to the Coniacian to Campanian stages of the Late Cretaceous.
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Washington (state)
Washington, officially the State of Washington, is the westernmost state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.
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Waterloo Farm lagerstätte
The Waterloo Farm lagerstätte is a Famennian lagerstätte in South Africa that constitutes the only known record of a near-polar Devonian coastal ecosystem.
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Waukesha Biota
The Waukesha Biota (also known as Waukesha Lagerstätte, Brandon Bridge Lagerstätte, or Brandon Bridge fauna) is an important fossil site located in Waukesha County and Franklin, Milwaukee County within the state of Wisconsin. Lagerstätte and Waukesha Biota are lagerstätten.
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Württemberg
Württemberg is a historical German territory roughly corresponding to the cultural and linguistic region of Swabia.
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Weeks Formation
The Weeks Formation is a geologic formation in Utah. Lagerstätte and Weeks Formation are lagerstätten.
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West Lothian
West Lothian (Wast Lowden; Lodainn an Iar) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, and was one of its historic counties.
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Western Australia
Western Australia (WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western third of the land area of the Australian continent.
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Westphalian (stage)
The Westphalian is a regional stage or age in the regional stratigraphy of northwest Europe, with an age between roughly 315 and 307 Ma (million years ago).
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Whale
Whales are a widely distributed and diverse group of fully aquatic placental marine mammals.
Wheeler Shale
The Wheeler Shale (named by Charles Walcott) is a Cambrian (507 Ma) fossil locality world-famous for prolific agnostid and Elrathia kingii trilobite remains (even though many areas are barren of fossils) and represents a Konzentrat-Lagerstätte. Lagerstätte and Wheeler Shale are lagerstätten.
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Winneshiek Shale
The Winneshiek Shale (originally the Winneshiek Lagerstätte) is a Middle Ordovician (Darriwilian-age) geological formation in Iowa.
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Winterswijk
Winterswijk (also known as Winterswiek or Wenters) is a municipality and a town in the eastern Netherlands.
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Wisconsin
Wisconsin is a state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest of the United States.
Wiwaxia
Wiwaxia is a genus of soft-bodied animals that were covered in carbonaceous scales and spines that protected it from predators.
Woolly mammoth
The woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) is an extinct species of mammoth that lived from the Middle Pleistocene until its extinction in the Holocene epoch.
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World Heritage Site
World Heritage Sites are landmarks and areas with legal protection by an international convention administered by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, or scientific significance.
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Wuliuan
The Wuliuan stage is the fifth stage of the Cambrian, and the first stage of the Miaolingian Series of the Cambrian.
Xiagou Formation
The Xiagou Formation is the middle strata of the Xinminbao Group. Lagerstätte and Xiagou Formation are lagerstätten.
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Xiaowa Formation
The Xiaowa Formation is a Carnian-age geological formation found in southern China.
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Xinjiang
Xinjiang, officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwest of the country at the crossroads of Central Asia and East Asia.
Xiphactinus
Xiphactinus (from Latin and Greek for "sword-ray"), colloquially referred to as the X-fish, is an extinct genus of large predatory marine bony fish that lived during the late Albian to the late Maastrichtian.
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Xiphosura
Xiphosura (in reference to its sword-like telson) is an order of arthropods related to arachnids.
Ya Ha Tinda Ranch
Ya Ha Tinda Ranch is a ranch in Ya Ha Tinda Valley, Clearwater County, Alberta, Canada near the Alberta side of Banff National Park.
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Yarenskian Gorizont
The Yarenskian Gorizont ("Yarenskian Horizon") is a major biostratigraphic unit in Russia corresponding to Upper Olenekian-age terrestrial sediments.
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Year
A year is the time taken for astronomical objects to complete one orbit.
Yellowstone hotspot
The Yellowstone hotspot is a volcanic hotspot in the United States responsible for large scale volcanism in Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and Wyoming, formed as the North American tectonic plate moved over it.
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Yixian Formation
The Yixian Formation (formerly transcribed as Yihsien Formation) is a geological formation in Jinzhou, Liaoning, People's Republic of China, that spans the late Barremian and early Aptian stages of the Early Cretaceous. Lagerstätte and Yixian Formation are lagerstätten.
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Ypresian
In the geologic timescale the Ypresian is the oldest age or lowest stratigraphic stage of the Eocene.
Yunnan
Yunnan is an inland province in Southwestern China.
Yutyrannus
Yutyrannus (meaning "feathered tyrant") is a genus of proceratosaurid tyrannosauroid dinosaur which contains a single known species, Yutyrannus huali.
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Zhucheng
Zhucheng is a county-level city in the southeast of Shandong province, People's Republic of China.
Zhuchengceratops
Zhuchengceratops is a genus of extinct leptoceratopsid ceratopsian that lived during the Upper Cretaceous of modern-day China.
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Zhuchengtitan
Zhuchengtitan (meaning "Zhucheng titan") is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Shandong, China.
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Zhuchengtyrannus
Zhuchengtyrannus (meaning "Zhucheng tyrant") is a genus of tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur known from the Campanian stage of the Late Cretaceous of Shandong Province, China.
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Zhuganpo Formation
The Zhuganpo Formation is a Triassic geologic unit found in southern China.
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Zoologica Scripta
Zoologica Scripta is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal on systematic zoology, published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagerstätte
Also known as Ashfall bed, Fossil bed, Fossil beds, Konservat-Lagerstätte, Konservat-Lagerstätten, Konzentrat-Lagerstätte, Lagerstaett, Lagerstaette, Lagerstaetten, Lagerstätt, Lagerstätten, Lagersta¨tte.
, Ashfall Fossil Beds, Asselian, Astraspis, Atrasado Formation, Auca Mahuevo, Austria, Auvergne, Avalon explosion, Łódź Voivodeship, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Baden-Württemberg, Badlands, Bajocian, Baltic amber, Barstow Formation, Baru, Bathonian, Bathypelagic zone, Batoidea, Baumberge, Bavaria, Bear Gulch Limestone, Beecher's Trilobite Bed, Beecher's Trilobite type preservation, Beipiaosaurus, Belarus, Belgium, Benthic zone, Berriasian, Bertie Formation, Besano Formation, Bickershaw, Big Hill Formation, Biomineralization, Bioturbation, Biozone, Bird, Bitter Springs Group, Bitter Springs type preservation, Bitumen, Blackberry Hill, Boggy Formation, Bolong, Bone bed, Boring Billion, Brachiopod, Bradoriida, Brandon Bridge Formation, British Columbia, Buen Formation, Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, Bullock Creek (Northern Territory), Burgess Shale, Burgess Shale-type preservation, Burmese amber, Buryatia, Calamites, Calcite, Calcium carbonate, California, Cambrian, Cambrian explosion, Cambrian Stage 4, Camelidae, Campania, Campanian, Canada, Canjuers Lagerstätte, Canowindra, Capitanian mass extinction event, Carbonaceous film (paleontology), Carboniferous, Carnian, Carnian pluvial episode, Castle Bank, Catalonia, Cell Press, Cementation (geology), Cenomanian, Cenomanian-Turonian boundary event, Ceratopsia, Chalk Group, Charente, Chattian, Chelicerata, Chemnitz petrified forest, Chiapas, Chicxulub crater, Chimaera, China, Chondrichthyes, Chongqing, Claino con Osteno, Clam shrimp, Clarkia fossil beds, Class (biology), Cleveland, Utah, Clinton Group, Clydagnathus, Coal ball, Coalbrookdale Formation, Coleoidea, Colombia, Colorado, Columbian mammoth, Communications Biology, Comptes rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Concretion, Confuciusornis, Coniacian, Conodont, Conulariida, Coon Creek Formation, Cow Branch Formation, Crab, Crato Formation, Crawford Lake (Halton Region), Cretaceous, Cretaceous Research, Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, Crocodile, Crocodilia, Crustacean, Cryogenian, Cuenca, Spain, Cyanobacteria, Danata Formation, Danian, Dasyuridae, Decorah, Iowa, Deep-water coral, Dendrophyllia, Denmark, Department of Arequipa, Department of Ica, Devonian, Diapsid, Diatomaceous earth, Diceratosaurus, Dinantian, Dinoflagellate, Dinosaur, Dire wolf, Dodo, Dolphin, Dominican amber, Dominican Republic, Dongbeititan, Douglas Lake Member, Doushantuo Formation, Doushantuo type preservation, Dromaeosauridae, Drumian, Early Cretaceous, East Kirkton Quarry, Ebelsberg Formation, Echinoderm, Ediacara Hills, Ediacaran, Ediacaran type preservation, Eifel, El Doctor Formation, Ellisdale Fossil Site, Elrathia, Embryo, Emsian, Emu Bay Shale, Emydidae, Enantiornithes, Entomologia Generalis, Eocene, Eocene Okanagan Highlands, Equisetum, Eramosa Member, Escuminac Formation, Euryhaline, Eurypterid, Eurypterus, Eusthenopteron, Euthycarcinoidea, Evolution, Facies, Falcatamacaris, Famennian, Felidae, Fezouata Formation, Filter feeder, Firth of Forth, Fish, Flash flood, Floian, Florissant Formation, Fluvial sediment processes, Fortunian, Fossil, Fossil Hill Member, Fossil track, Foulden Maar, France, Fur (island), Fur Formation, Galeaspida, Gansu, Gansus, Geobiology (journal), Geologic time scale, Geologica Acta, Geological formation, Geological Magazine, Geological Society of America Bulletin, Geology, Geology (journal), Georgian Bay Formation, Germany, Glyptodont, Gnathostomata, Gogo Formation, Gomel Region, Gondwana Research, Granton Shrimp Bed, Gray Fossil Site, Grès à Voltzia, Green River Formation, Greenland, Gregory River (Australia), Ground sloth, Grundy County, Illinois, Guangxi, Guanling Formation, Guiyang biota, Guizhou, Gulf of Mexico, Gzhelian, Hadrosauridae, Hallucigenia, Hamilton Quarry, Harding Sandstone, Hell Creek Formation, Herefordshire, Hesperornis, Hesseltal Formation, Hickory, Hidalgo (state), High Atlas, Historical Biology, Hoard, Holocene, Holzmaden, Homotherium, Horseshoe crab, House Range, Hubei, Hukawng Valley, Hunan, Hunsrück Slate, Hupehsuchia, Hybodontiformes, Hylonomus, Hypoxia (environmental), Ichthyosauria, Ichthyosauriformes, Idaho, Illinois, In Amenas District, Induan, Insect, International Society of Zoological Sciences, Invertebrate, Iowa, Ireland, Ironstone, Iroquoian peoples, Irritator, Isopoda, Israel, Italy, Jaekelopterus, Japan, Jellyfish, Jialingjiang Formation, Jinju Formation, Jiufotang Formation, Joggins, Joggins Formation, Jordan, Journal of Anatomy, Journal of Iberian Geology, Journal of Paleontology, Journal of South American Earth Sciences, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, Journal of Systematics and Evolution, Journal of the Geological Society, Jurassic, Jurassic National Monument, Kaili Formation, Kaliningrad Oblast, Kansas, Karabastau Formation, Karst Plateau, Katian, Kazakhstan, Kilkenny, Kinnekulle, Kishenehn Formation, Klerf Formation, Klondike Mountain Formation, Komen, Koonwarra, Victoria, Kopet Dag, Kupferschiefer, Kyrgyzstan, La Brea Tar Pits, La Casita Formation, La Huérguina Formation, La Pedrera de Rúbies Formation, La Voulte-sur-Rhône (lagerstätte), Lacustrine deposits, Ladinian, Lagoon, Lancashire, Late Cretaceous, Late Miocene, Late Paleozoic icehouse, Laurentia, Lebach, Lebanese amber, Lebanon, Lens (geology), Lepospondyli, Lethaia, Liaoning, Lichen, Limestone, List of fossil sites, List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Colombia, List of U.S. state fossils, Lizard, Llandovery Epoch, London Clay, Lower Saxony, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Lutetian, Maar, Maastrichtian, Madagascar, Madygen Formation, Magothy Formation, Mammal, Mammoth, Mandagery Sandstone, Mangrullo Formation, Manitoba, Manitoulin District, Maotianshan Shales, Mare aux Songes, Marine reptile, Marjum Formation, Marshalltown Formation, Massif Central, Mauriciosaurus, Mauritius, Mazon Creek fossil beds, McAbee Fossil Beds, McGraths Flat, Megafauna, Megalodon, Mei long, Meiobenthos, Meiolania, Mesosaur, Mesozoic, Messel Formation, Messel pit, Mexican amber, Mexico, Microbial mat, Microfossil, Microraptor, Miguasha National Park, Million years ago, Miocene, Mississippi, Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve, Mollusca, Moltrasio Formation, Montana, Monte Bolca, Morocco, Morris, Illinois, Morrison Formation, Mors (island), Mosasaur, Mudstone, Multicellular organism, Mummy, Muschelkalk, Museum, Myanmar, Nambaroo, Namur Province, Naracoorte Caves National Park, Naraoia, National Science Review, Nature (journal), Nature Ecology and Evolution, Nebraska, Nematode, Neoproterozoic, Netherlands, Neuquén Province, Nevada, New Jersey, New Jersey amber, New Mexico, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, New South Wales, New York (state), Ngorora Formation, Nodule (geology), Norian, North Dakota, North Rhine-Westphalia, Northern Territory, Nova Scotia, Nuevo León, Obukhov Formation, Occitania (administrative region), Octopus, Ohio, Oil shale, Olenekian, Oligochaeta, Ontario, Orapa diamond mine, Order (biology), Ordovician, Orenburg Oblast, Organ (biology), Orsten, Oryctocephalus indicus, Osteichthyes, Otago, Owadów–Brzezinki site, Oyster, Padillasaurus, Paja Formation, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Palaeontological Association, PALAIOS, Paleocene, Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum, Paleoecology, Paleontology, Paleozoic, PalZ, Paratethys, Paris biota, Parker Slate, Patagonia, Penguin, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvanian (geology), Pensoft Publishers, Pentastomida, Perm, Russia, Permian–Triassic extinction event, Permineralization, Petrified wood, Phosphate mineral, Phosphatization, Phosphatocopina, Phyllocarida, Phylogenetics, Phylum, Pietraroja Plattenkalk, Pisco Formation, Placoderm, Plattenkalk, Pleistocene, Plesiosaur, Pliocene, Pliosauroidea, PLOS One, Poland, Polar regions of Earth, Poleta Formation, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Pompeii, Posidonia Shale, Precambrian, Precambrian Research, Priabonian, Prince Charles Mountains, Princeton Chert, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Provence, Province of Cuenca, Prussian Formation, Psittacosaurus, Pteranodon, Pterosaur, Puebla, Purlawaugh Formation, Pyrite, Pyroclastic rock, Qingjiang biota, Queensland, Quercy Phosphorites Formation, Raritan Formation, Red panda, Red River Formation, Redox, Reef, Reingrabener Schiefer, Reptiliomorpha, Retinal, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, Rhineland-Palatinate, Rhinoceros, Rhynie chert, Rhyolite, Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Rivne Oblast, Romualdo Formation, Rotifer, Rovno amber, Russia, Sabkha, Saccorhytus, Sakha Republic, Sakmarian, Salamander, San Rafael Swell, Sandbian, Sannine Formation, Santana Group, Santonian, Sarcopterygii, Sardinia, Sauropoda, Sauropsida, Saxony, Science Advances, Scientific Reports, Scipionyx, Sclerosis (medicine), Scotland, Scyphozoa, Sea spider, Seahorse, Sediment, Sedimentary Geology (journal), Sedimentary rock, Sedimentation, Sequoia affinis, Seymouriamorpha, Shaanxi, Shale, Shandong, Shanshan County, Shantungosaurus, Shanwang National Geological Park, Shark, Shengjinkou Formation, Shrimp, Siderite, Silicification, Silurian, Simon Conway Morris, Sinkhole, Sinosauropteryx, Sirius Passet, Slovenia, Smilodon, Smoky Hill Chalk, Société botanique de France, Solnhofen Limestone, Somerset, Soom Shale, South Africa, South America, South Australia, South Dakota, South Korea, Southern District (Israel), Spain, Spence Shale, Sponge, Squamata, Starfish, Stary Waliszów, Stony Mountain Formation, Stratum, Strud, Strudiella, Sweden, Switzerland, Synapsida, Tafilalt, Talbragar fossil site, Tanis (fossil site), Taphonomy, Tapir, Tar pit, Taxon, Taxonomy, Temnospondyli, Tenejapa-Lacandón Formation, Tennessee, Tethys Ocean, Tetrapod, Texas, Thalassodromeus, Thalattosauria, The Mammoth Site, The Science of Nature, Theropoda, Thylacine, Thylacocephala, Thylacoleo, Tianyuraptor, Tiaojishan Formation, Titanosauria, Tlayúa Formation, Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event, Tonoloway Formation, Toxodontia, Trends (journals), Triassic–Jurassic extinction event, Tropical forest, Tuff, Tullimonstrum, Tunjice, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Turonian, Turtle, Typhloesus, Ubirajara jubatus, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Upper Austria, Uruguay, Utah, Vallecillo Municipality, Vampire squid, Vampyronassa, Vermont, Verona, Victoria (state), Vinnytsia Oblast, Virginia, Volcanic rock, Waco Mammoth National Monument, Waco, Texas, Wadi Harrana, Walcott–Rust quarry, Wangshi Group, Washington (state), Waterloo Farm lagerstätte, Waukesha Biota, Württemberg, Weeks Formation, West Lothian, Western Australia, Westphalian (stage), Whale, Wheeler Shale, Winneshiek Shale, Winterswijk, Wisconsin, Wiwaxia, Woolly mammoth, World Heritage Site, Wuliuan, Xiagou Formation, Xiaowa Formation, Xinjiang, Xiphactinus, Xiphosura, Ya Ha Tinda Ranch, Yarenskian Gorizont, Year, Yellowstone hotspot, Yixian Formation, Ypresian, Yunnan, Yutyrannus, Zhucheng, Zhuchengceratops, Zhuchengtitan, Zhuchengtyrannus, Zhuganpo Formation, Zoologica Scripta.