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INTERNET RESOURCES Informative Web Sites Smith 40 Bowie, Suzanne (1999). Experimental Taphonomy. Retrieved November 5, 2005, from http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/Palaeofiles/Taph/ Web site providing excellent introduction to experimental taphonomic methods. Developed by University of Bristol, U.K. graduate student. Includes bibliography and glossary. University of California – Berkeley, Museum of Paleontology (1998). Plant Fossils and their Preservation. Retrieved November 8, 2005, from http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/IB181/VPL/Pres/PresTitle.html A web tutorial covering taphonomic processes of plant fossils, environmental conditions of ancient plant preservation and types of plant fossils. The Virtual Fossil Museum (2005). Retrieved November 11, 2005, from http://www.fossilmuseum.net/ An extensive and growing collection of high-quality fossil images, presented in multiple contexts of geological history, the tree of life, paleobiology and evolution. Images are donated by a variety of contributors under editorial guidance, and provided to the public as an educational resource. Wells, R.M. (1998). Taphonomy & Preservation. Retrieved October 30, 2005, from http://paleo.cortland.edu/tutorial/Taphonomy%26Pres/taphonomy.htm Site hosted by the College at Cortland, State University of New York. Excellent overview of taphonomic processes and types of fossil preservation modes. Museum Collections Florida Museum of Natural History (2005). Vertebrate Paleontology. Retrieved November 25, 2005, from http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/natsci/vertpaleo/vertpaleo.htm#Top The musem’s regional vertebrate fossil collections feature rich samples of all classes, mainly from the Cenozoic Era.. Included are about 400,000 specimens, of which more than 235,000 are catalogued and 220,000 are currently on a searchable computer database.
Smith 41 San Diego Natural History Museum (2005). Paleontology Collection Database. Retrieved November 25, 2004, from http://www.sdnhm.org/research/paleontology/searchdata.html The paleontology collections of the museum can be searched by locality, taxon, rock unit, or time unit. Includes regional fossil vertebrates, invertebrates, and plants. ✮ University of California, Berkeley (2005). Museum of Paleontology Web Site. Retrieved November 10, 2005, from http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/ Databases A rich resource detailing the museum’s microfossil, invertebrate, vertebrate and plant fossil collections, and providing databases of fossil specimen data and images. Sponsored by the UC Berkeley Digital Library Project, sponsored by the National Science Foundation’s Digital Libraries Initiative. In 2000, Jocelyn Kaiser noted that the paleontological sciences lag behind other disciplines in the creation of Internet database resources. Challenges include the sharing of privately held specimens maintenance of rapidly changing taxonomic data. The situation has improved in the intervening 5 years, however, and several excellent paleontological databases now exist. A small sampling is provided here. Although not specifically geared to taphonomic studies, specialists will nonetheless find the specimen identification and stratigraphic data these resources contain to be useful. Reference: Kaiser, J. (2000). Fossil databases move to the web. Science, 289(5488), 2307 ✮ Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol (2003). Fossil Laggerstätten. Retrieved November 17, 2005, from http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/Palaeofiles/Lagerstatten/ A database listing sites with exceptional fossil preservation, worldwide. Details of each paleontological deposit include a section on the site’s taphonomy, often with images. Site listing can be ordered for browsing stratigraphically. Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol. The Fossil Record 2. Retrieved November 27, 2005, from http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/frwhole/FR2.html A “near-complete listing of the diversity of life through time”. Data is searchable by family, order, or phyla, and results can also be plotted onto paleogeographic maps. Print equivalent: Benton, M. J. (ed.) (1993). Fossil record 2. London: Chapman & Hall.
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