#NewPaper #Paleontology #Lagerstatten

Botting, J.P., Muir, L.A., Pates, S. et al. A Middle Ordovician Burgess Shale-type fauna from Castle Bank, Wales (UK). Nat Ecol Evol (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02038-4

Strahlende Geschäfte

#Finnland als #Abfalldienst, in Europa und weltweit: Atomfans in dem nord­eu­ro­pä­i­schen Land schlagen vor, #radioakti­ven Müll aus dem Ausland in fin­ni­schen #Endlagern zu ver­stau­en. Die #Lagerstätten, die infrage kommen, sind jedoch nicht fertig – Fragen zur Si­cher­heit bleiben offen

Von Reinhard #Wolff
https://www.taz.de/!5928489

Hyphalosaurus was an amphibious reptile that swam in ancient lakes during the Cretaceous. The Jehol Biota in China yields amazing fossils of these animals with soft tissue preservation (as well as birds, dinosaurs, and plants). Because of which, we can reconstruct what it looked like and inferred it used its long tail (and not arms) for swimming.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667122003159
#Paleontology #Lagerstatten

#FossilAdventCalendar Day 13
#TerrestrialTuesday

#BritishColumbia is full of #lagerstätten (sites of exceptional #fossil #preservation), including the sites of the #Eocene #Okanagan. Here, a series of #ancient #lakes preserve #fossils of #leaves, #insects, and the oldest #salmon. Rarest of all are #arachnids: this fossil of the #spider Palaeoperenethis thaleri in the #RoyalOntarioMuseum is the only one of its kind, but it's #preserved well enough to identify it as a relative of fishing #spiders