...Sarah E. Gabbott; Claire Browning; Johannes N. Theron; Rowan J. Whittle Abstract Fossils of the Late Ordovician Soom Shale Lagerstätte are characterized by exceptional preservation of their soft tissues in clay minerals. The low-diversity community lived in an unusual cold-water setting, dominated...

...ROWAN WHITTLE; SARAH GABBOTT; RICHARD ALDRIDGE; JOHANNES THERON Abstract More than 20 partial scolecodont clusters were recovered from the Soom Shale Lagerstätte, South Africa. The specimens were found in association with chitinozoans, algae, conodont apparatuses and the enigmatic needle-like...

...SARAH E. GABBOTT; RICHARD J. ALDRIDGE; JOHANNES N. THERON Abstract The Upper Ordovician (Ashgill) Soom Shale lagerstätte preserves chitinozoans on the bedding planes as scattered individuals and, more significantly, in linked chains, in aggregated masses and associated with organic envelopes...

... Shale Lagerstätte. Correlation of the Soom Shale chitinozoans with identical assemblages in post-glacial, transgressive deposits of Northern Africa is possible; both faunas occur in shales that overlie glacial diamictites of the Hirnantian glaciation. A new species, Spinachitina verniersi n. sp...

... occurring as new environmental niches were occupied ( Minter et al., 2017 ). The Matjiesgoedkloof ichnofauna is also significant because of its relationship to the Soom Shale lägerstatte (lower Cedarberg Formation; Fig. 1C ). The Soom Shale Member preserves skeletonized and soft-bodied fauna within...

...Sarah E. Gabbott; Jan Zalasiewicz; Richard J. Aldridge; Johannes N. Theron Abstract The Soom Shale Member of the Cedarberg Formation (South Africa) is a key early Paleozoic Lagerstätte that directly overlies glacigenic deposits of the Late Ordovician glacial maximum; it was deposited...

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..., the I . grandis n. gen. n. sp. apparatuses from the Winneshiek Lagerstätte have an estimated average length of 2–3 cm, which is larger than the Upper Ordovician apparatuses described from the Soom Shale in South Africa (e.g., Theron et al., 1990 ; Aldridge et al., 2013...

... with a taphonomic analysis of the Konservat-Lagerstätte in the black shales and siltstones of the Jurassic Fernie Formation at Ya Ha Tinda (Alberta, Canada). This deposit contains crustacean cuticles, coleoid gladii with ink sacs and mantle tissues, and articulated skeletons of fish, crinoids, and ichthyosaurs...

...) : Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology , v. 253 , p. 434 – 457 . Gabbott S. 1998 , Taphonomy of the Ordovician Soom Shale Lagerstätte: an example of soft tissue preservation in clay minerals : Palaeontology...

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... Aldridge, R.J., Gabbott, S.E., Siveter, L.J., and Theron, J.N., 2006 , Bromalites from the Soom Shale Lagerstätte (Upper Ordovician) of South Africa: palaeoecological...

... preserved frogs (Rana (Pelophylax) pueyoi) from the lacustrine-hosted, upper Miocene, Libros Konservat-Lagerstätte (Teruel, northeastern Spain). The frogs occur within several different laminated mudstone facies and vary in their size, degree of completeness, degree of articulation, limb positions...

... in the south ( Fig. 1 ). The Eramosa Lagerstätte appears to be confined to the Interbedded Unit of Armstrong and Meadows ( 1988 ), a 7–9 m-thick sequence of alternating dolostone, limestone, and bituminous shale constituting the uppermost, shaly part of the Eramosa Formation. Using...

... Hirnantian–earliest Silurian (443 – 442 Ma) Soom Shale ( Aldridge et al. 1994 ), both from Africa. Middle and Late Ordovician Lagerstätten are known from North America, including the Darriwilian (467 – 458 Ma) Winneshiek Lagerstätte ( Liu et al. 2006 ) and mid-Katian (450 – 449 Ma) Beecher's Trilobite...

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... the Upper Ordovician, Ashgill Series, Soom Shale of South Africa (Gabbott et al . 2003 ). There is probably a minimum of 2 million years of time difference between the occurrence of the new Greenland species of Pauline (late Llandovery) and the Herefordshire Pauline avibella...

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