Essays about: "Ordovicico"

Found 2 essays containing the word Ordovicico.

  1. 1. Kinematic Enrolment in Four Ordovician Trilobites Using Three-Dimensional Modelling

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Paleobiologi

    Author : Alejandro Corrales Garcia; [2023]
    Keywords : 3D modelling; Blender; Dysplanus centrotus; enrolment kinematics; Gyrometopus lineatus; Illaenus sarsi; Ordovician; trilobites; Trilobiter; Enrollering; 3D-modellering; Blender; Modelos 3D; Blender; cinematica; enrollamiento; Ordovicico; trilobites;

    Abstract : Trilobites were a successful group of marine arthropods that thrived for much of the Palaeozoic Era. Akey innovation of trilobites involved the capacity to enrol their biomineralized exoskeletons for protection; a trait that appeared early in their evolutionary history during the Cambrian Period. READ MORE

  3. 2. The first study of the micro-fauna of middle Cambrian olistoliths in the Argentine Precordillera

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Author : Elise Fahlgren; Maria Tranvik; [2015]
    Keywords : Olistolith; Burgess Shale-type preservation; middle Cambrian; Precordillera; Micropaleontology;

    Abstract : This study implies a survey of a somewhat unexplored Cambrian carbonate formation in the Argentine Precordillera (AP) located in western Argentina, close to the city of San José de Jáchal. The carbonate platform of the AP is a unique piece of the South American geology and is in this study partly surveyed and compared with the Stephen Formation of northern Canada, a middle Cambrian unit renowned for its contents of exceptionally well preserved soft bodied fossils named the Burgess Shale biota. READ MORE