Early Cambrian and Older Trace Fossils from the Southern Cordillera of Canada Metazoan trace fossils of Early Cambrian and older age have been found in parts of the Gog, Cariboo, and Miette Groups of eastern British Columbia and western Alberta. Most of them occur in beds immediately below the...
As a result, at the beginning of the Oligocene (~30-25 million years ago, Ma), several continental microplates that formed part of the Hercynian belt (Corsica, Sardinia, Balearic Islands, Calabro-Peloritan massif, including northern Sicily, the Kabylies and the Beatic-Rift Cordillera) broke ...
Lehnert, O., Miller, J. F., & Repetski, J. E. (1997). Paleogeographic significance ofClavohamulus hintzeiMiller (Conodonta) and other Ibexian conodonts in an early Paleozoic carbonate platform facies of the Argentine Precordillera.Geological Society of America, Bulletin, 109, 429–443. Goog...
Burling, L. D. (1914) Early Cambrian stratigraphy in the North American cordillera, with discussion ofAlbertellaand related fauns. Geol. Surv. Canad, Mus. Bull. No. 2, pp. 93-129 . Campbell, D.P. 1974 Biostratigraphy of the Albertella and Glossopleura zones (lower Middle Cambrian) of...
United States - The Western Cordillera: West of the Great Plains the United States seems to become a craggy land whose skyline is rarely without mountains—totally different from the open plains and rounded hills of the East. On a map the alignment of th
The 2023 discovery of a fish fossil from lower Eocene strata of the Chuckanut Formation provides new insights into the paleoenvironment and paleoecology of one of the region’s most prolific fossil deposits. The detrital clastic fluvial and floodplain de