What are fossil biodiversity hotspots?

Nov 1, 2016 ... Fossil Assemblage in the Dunfee Member of the Deep Spring Formation. The older of the two body fossil assemblages reported here occurs in ... Mar 9, 2015 ... Phylogenomic extrapolations indicate the last common ancestor of sponges and eumetazoans existed deep in the Cryogenian, perhaps 200 million ... Some fossils are both a trace fossil and a body fossil at the same time! · This piece of wood was chewed by a beaver before it became a fossil. It is a body ... Nov 26, 2003 ... Aspidella is confirmed as a body fossil from observations of complex radial and concentric ornamentation, mutually deformed borders in clusters ... Jan 26, 2021 ... The largest “complete” specimens of Isotelus from Ohio are somewhat smaller, at just over 38 centimeters (15 inches). Most body fossils of ... ... body-fossil records. Three such attributes are assessed in the insect fossil record: mouthpart class, functional feeding group, and dietary guild, which ... Oct 16, 2017 ... Most body fossils represent hard and durable parts of an organism, such as shells, bone, or teeth. Soft tissues, such as tentacles, eyes and ... Mar 20, 2007 ... A fossil discovery in the mid-Cretaceous Blackleaf Formation of southwest Montana, USA, has yielded the first trace and body fossil evidence ... A rich assemblage of body fossils has been recovered. This comprises rare ammonites (Baculites incurvatus, Forresteria cf. petrocoriensis, ?Scalarites sp.), ... Nov 1, 2016 ... Here, we report two new exceptionally preserved latest Ediacaran fossil assemblages from the Deep Spring Formation at Mount Dunfee, Nevada (USA) ...