Fossil Arthropods of Great BritainThe species of Arthropods is accorded a special status in the GCR series because of the rarity of the fossils. This volume addresses the evolution and diversity of this animal group. The rarer arthropods - and the sites from which the fossils were recovered are described here. |
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Introduction 357 | 8 |
Early arthropod evolution and the Cambrian explosion | 16 |
Fossil evidence for herbivory in arthropods | 26 |
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angiosperms aquatic arachnids Ardtun arthropods Basin beetles Bembridge Marls biota Bouldnor Bradnor Hill Britain British Carboniferous Church Hill Cleal Coal Coleoptera Cowie crustaceans deposits Devonian Dineley and Metcalf diversity Downton dragonflies Dunside Durlston Bay Early Cretaceous East Kirkton Edinburgh environments Eocene eurypterid extinct Figure Fish Bed fossil arthropod fossil insects fossil record Foulden freshwater GCR sites Geological Society Glencartholm Granton Group Gutterford Burn holotype important Inlier insect fauna insects Isle Jarzembowski Jurassic Kjellesvig-Waering late Lesmahagow Limestone locality Ludford Lane marine metres Midland Valley mudstones myriapod North Old Red Sandstone ostracods Palaeogene Palaeontology Palaeozoic Perton plants Poxwell preserved Přídolí Přídolí Series Pterygotus Purbeck Quarry Rhynie Chert rocks Salter scorpions Scotland sediments Selden sequence shales Shrimp siltstone Silurian Siveter Slot Burn species specimens Stonehaven Stonesfield strata stratigraphical terrestrial Tertiary Tin Mill Race Trewin Triassic Turin Hill Upper Viséan volcanic Waterston Weald Clay Wealden Welsh Borderland Whitcliffe Writhlington