Extinctions: Past and Present Week 2 - A fossil ecosystem

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2017-03-17

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Chinsamy-Turan, Anusuya
Guess, Rob
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Department of Biological Sciences
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In this video, Professor Anusaya Chinsamy-Turan interviews paleontologist Dr Rob Gess about the Devonian fossil site called Waterloo Farm in Grahamstown, South Africa. He discusses the unique nature of the site given how it contains rare fossils with soft tissue preserved and he goes on to describe several interesting examples of these fossils.
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mass extinctions
paleontology
fossils
Devonian
Grahamstown
South Africa
soft tissue preservation

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Chinsamy-Turan, A. & Guess, R. 2017. Extinctions: Past and Present Week 2 - A fossil ecosystem. [MOOC]. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/38664

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