Web Links
3. Taphonomy and the quality of the fossil record
Read more about taphonomy at:
http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/Palaeofiles/Taph/
http://paleo.cortland.edu/tutorial/Taphonomy&Pres/taphonomy.htm
and plant preservation at: http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/IB181/VPL/Pres/PresTitle.html
There is an online debate about the quality of the fossil record at: http://www.nature.com/nature/debates/fossil/index.html
Box 3.1
Read more about the Nusplingen locality and its exceptionally preserved fossils at:
http://www.plattenkalk-nusplingen.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/nuspl_engl.php
Box 3.2
Read about computer applications in retrodeformation of fossils at http://www.idav.ucdavis.edu/research/EvoMorph
and of a Neandertal skull at:
http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/staff/zolli/CAP/principles.htm
Box 3.3
Read more about age versus clade statistical studies at:
http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/cladestrat/cladestrat.html
Calculations of the stratigraphic consistency index (SCI), relative completeness index (RCI) and gap excess ratio (GER) may be made on the software “Ghosts”:
http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/cladestrat/Gho2.html
or PAST:
http://folk.uio.no/ohammer/past/
