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The Sedimentology of Palaeontology - How to Accumulate Highly Fossiliferous Deposits

Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology via YouTube

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YouTube
Pricing

Free Video
Languages

English
Effort

1 hour
Sessions

Self-Paced
Level

Intermediate

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This course examines how fossil deposits accumulate and are preserved across environments from fluvial and aeolian settings to deep marine systems. Case studies explain how sedimentary processes, organismal robustness, cementation, and weathering affect exceptional fossil beds.

Syllabus

Intro
The Sedimentology of Palaeontology: how to accumulate highly fossiliferous deposits
Introduction
A note on collecting macrofossils
Pattern recognition really works
What rock type?
The best outcrops for fossil hunting
The eternal question-what rate?
Terrestrial versus Marine
Using fossils as sedimentation gauges
Macrofossil abundance
Feast and famine
Lower energy fluvial environments 1
Classic channel lagi winnowing
High energy fluvial environments
Dataset: Princess South
Aeolian
Lacustrine
Estuarine settings
Significant surfaces at the coast
Shallow marine carbonates
Atlas Medusa
Open marine settings
Open marine case study: Sandakan Formation
Examples of rich fossil beds proximal environments
Examples of rich fossil beds: distal environments
Most likely environments with abundant fossil beds
Concentrating agents across environments
What is taphonomy?
Slopes and currents - outside taphonomic agents
The Snyder Quarry
Howe Quarry, Wyoming
Monospecific bone beds of DPP, Alberta
Interpretation of bone beds
Conclusions