Where Did the Dodo Come From? : The Origins of the Mascarene Vertebrate Fauna

Pleistocene Lake Bonneville created many classic examples of lacustrine shoreline landforms, which preserve a wide variety of vertebrate fossils. _is _eld guide provides a review of the published literature for a sampling of the lake’s world-class localities. _is guide also provides a brief overview of modern Great Salt Lake and its microbialites recently exposed by near-record low lake levels. Stops include G.K. Gilbert Geologic View Park, Draper spit, Steep Mountain beach, Point of the Mountain spit, American Fork delta, Stockton Bar, and Great Salt Lake State Park.

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VERTEBRATE FAUNA OF THE TRIASSIC-JURASSIC ERG: INSIGHTS FROM AN EOLIAN LAGERSTATTEN

10.1130/abs/2016am-282313 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

George F. Engelmann ◽

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Daniel J. Chure ◽

Brooks B. Britt ◽

Jesse Dean Scott Shumway

Keyword(s):

Vertebrate Fauna

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THE LATEST PLEISTOCENE VERTEBRATE FAUNA AND STRATIGRAPHY OF MACY LOCALITY 100 FROM THE SOUTHERN HIGH PLAINS, TEXAS

10.1130/abs/2017am-304032 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

John A. Moretti ◽

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Eileen Johnson

Keyword(s):

High Plains ◽

Southern High Plains ◽

Vertebrate Fauna

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Middle Ordovician Fish-bearing Beds from the St. Lawrence Lowlands of Quebec

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences ◽

10.1139/e73-084 ◽

1973 ◽

Vol 10 (6) ◽

pp. 954-960 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Leslie S. Eliuk

Keyword(s):

Lower Portion ◽

Quebec City ◽

Marine Environments ◽

European Standard ◽

Shallow Marine ◽

Vertebrate Fauna ◽

Middle Ordovician ◽

Fish Remains ◽

Black River Group

Ostracoderm tubercles were recovered from the lower portion of two Black River Group sections between Montreal and Quebec City. Some of these fish remains seem identical to tubercles of Astraspis desiderata from the Harding Sandstone of Colorado. The age of the Quebec remains is questionably earliest Blackriveran or basal Caradocian of the European standard. The remains were found in sandy carbonates probably laid down in the supratidal to shallow marine environments. It is concluded that these remains may represent part of a continent-wide, biostratigraphically useful vertebrate fauna and that bulk sampling and acid residuing might be a technique whereby sparse, fragmentary, earliest Paleozoic fish remains could be found.

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