Readings and Links

Geology 217 Readings and Links

READINGS: Earliest Life and Burgess Shale: First Fossils (pictures) First Fossils (pictures) Stromatolites Stromatolites (pictures) Ediacaran Fauna 1 Ediacaran Fauna 2 Ediacaran Fauna (pictures) Burgess Shale 1 Burgess Shale 2 Ordovican Radiation		Anomalocaris (top) and Opabinia (bottom). Two "wierd wonders" from the Burgess Shale.
Protoctista: Forams

Additional readings: Diversity: 1a, 1b, 1c, 2, 3a, 3b Trilobites
LINKS: Ediacaran Animals Burgess Shale Animals Trace Fossils Paleobiology Database Wray et al., 1996 Precambrian Slides Evolution Slides Extinction Seminar Labs