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by (Alex) Jih-Pai Lin lin.542@osu

BURGESS SHALE-TYPE PRESERVATION AND THE ANIMAL EVOLUTION ACROSS THE CAMBRIAN/PRECAMBRIAN BOUNDARY. by (Alex) Jih-Pai Lin lin.542@osu.edu. Acknowledgements.

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  1. BURGESS SHALE-TYPE PRESERVATION AND THE ANIMAL EVOLUTION ACROSS THE CAMBRIAN/PRECAMBRIAN BOUNDARY by (Alex) Jih-Pai Lin lin.542@osu.edu

  2. Acknowledgements • William I. Ausich, Loren E. Babcock and James St. John, Derek Briggs, and Sam Gon, III in USA;Yuan-Long Zhao, You-Yi Yu, Wang Yue, Jing Peng, Yuan Jin-Liang, and Shi-Xue Hu in China; Andrew Scott in UK; Chai-Wei Li and Hung-Jen Wu in Taiwan; and James G. Gehling in Australia. • My graduate studies were supported by the Presidential Fellowship, Early-Start Fellowship, Ying-Chien Chang Fund, Graduate Student Ravel Grants, Alumni Research Grant from OSU, Student Research Grant and Gould Grant in Aid from PS, NSF East Asia Summer Research Fellowship, and two GSA Graduate Student Research Grants.

  3. Why Study Fossils? • Biostratigraphy • Evolution • Paleoecology • Paleogeography • Simple fascination Source: Prothero, D. R. 1998. Bring Fossils to Life: An Introduction to Paleobiology, 1st ed. McGraw-Hill, Boston, 457 p.

  4. Presentation Sections • Visited localities of exceptional preservation • Mistaken Point Biota, Newfoundland • Ediacara Biota, South Australia • Chengjiang Biota, Yunnan, China • Emu Bay Shale Biota, Kangaroo Island, Australia • Kaili Biota, Guizhou, China • Burgess Shale Biota, western Canada • Significance of Kaili Biota • New mode of preservation

  5. Pre- Cambrian Post- Cambrian

  6. Visited Deposits of Exceptional Preservation around the World Mistaken Point Biota, Newfoundland, Canada

  7. Narbonne et al., 2005

  8. Narbonne et al., 2005

  9. Visited Deposits of Exceptional Preservation around the World Ediacara Biota, Flinders Range, South Australia

  10. Gehling, 2005

  11. Gehling, 2005

  12. Gehling, 2005

  13. Visited Deposits of Exceptional Preservation around the World Chengjiang Biota, Yunnan Province, South China

  14. Hou et al., 2004

  15. Visited Deposits of Exceptional Preservation around the World Emu Bay Shale, Kangaroo Island, South Australia

  16. Jago & Zang, 2006

  17. Visited Deposits of Exceptional Preservation around the World Kaili Biota, Guizhou Province, South China

  18. Kaili Biota – Arthropods http://hdl.handle.net/1811/24227

  19. Kaili Biota – Echinoderms http://hdl.handle.net/1811/24227

  20. Kaili Biota – Other Groups http://hdl.handle.net/1811/24227

  21. Kaili Biota – Trace Fossils http://hdl.handle.net/1811/24227

  22. Burgess Shale Biota Preservation of nonmineralizing organisms Preservation of soft parts

  23. Visited Museum Collections • Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History • Carnegie Museum of Natural History • Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History • Oxford Museum of Natural History

  24. Caron & Jackson, 2006

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