"To the question why do we not find rich fossiliferous deposits belonging to these assumed earliest periods before the Cambrian system, I can give no satisfactory answer," he wrote. If his theory ...

A unique and significant fossil bed, believed to be unprecedented in South Africa and potentially the entire world, has been ...

These formations, known as the Cincinnatian Series, are approximately 200 meters (600 feet) thick and are composed of alternating thin to very thin bedded, gray, fossiliferous limestone and blue-gray ...

Formation - A formation is a set of rock layers that consists dominantly of a certain rock type or combination of types. Fossiliferous Limestone - Limestone that contains abundant fossils. Fossils - ...

His seminal work, published in 1859, changed the course of science and society. An excerpt from the concluding chapter, on ...

The numerous fossiliferous beds, one or more of which are usually cut across by the diggings, have supplied in part this material. Most of the animals found in these beds were bivalves ...

The snake is estimated to be between roughly 11 and 15 metres long, comparable in size only to the extinct Titanoboa, known ...

David Broussard, Ph.D., department chair and assistant professor of biology, focuses his research on the paleontology of Late Devonian (365 – 360 million years ago) vertebrates including extinct ...

Tutcetus, Pyenson notes, is the first fossil whale from Egypt named by Egyptian paleontologists—even though researchers have been visiting the country’s fossiliferous rocks for generations.

The site encompasses the renowned Burgess Shale fossiliferous sites. The large size of the property (2,306,884 ha), its configuration (400 kms long and up to 100 kms wide), and the fact that over 95% ...

Mine is located in the Kutch district in western India's state of Gujarat An undated picture of panoramic view of Panandhro Lightnite Mine, Kutch, Gujarat, India, showing the fossiliferous level ...

In the western part of the area, a marine, fossiliferous and partially volcanic Lower Jurassic (Hettangian to Sinemurian) sequence, intruded by a Lower Jurassic (186 Ma 40 Ar/ 39 Ar) granitoid pluton ...