The Fossil Locality Project will give you opportunities to research a single California Fossil locality in depth, and share your research with other students. You will choose a fossil locality, and summarize the following:
Location, general region, any important geography (e.g., prominent mountain ranges, basins, rivers, etc.)
Age of the fossils, and the specific evidence for that age determination
Geology, formation name, brief overview of the major rock type(s)
Paleoenvironment (i.e., environment of deposition), and evidence for that environmental determination.
List as many of the known fossil species as possible, organized by higher Linnaean taxonomic rank
Identify, describe, and explain the significance of three “important” taxa found at your fossil locality.
The goal of this project is to produce a summary of a fossil locality from California. A similar project was completed by University of Florida students for Florida fossil localities, and an example can be found here (link). (Note that the example page linked here is an example of the type of information and organization for this project. However, this example page does not sufficiently cite the primary literature [see below] to the extent required for this course project.)
For this assignment, you will be required to find information in the primary scholarly literature (i.e., not websites nor popular articles, although those can be helpful to find the primary scholarly literature). You will need to find information from at least three different sources (i.e., scientific papers). If you need help finding appropriate scholarly literature, the UCLA library provides an excellent tutorial in searching for scholarly articles (http://guides.library.ucla.edu/c.php?g=180285). The Paleobiology Database (link) is also a great starting point for tracking down relevant papers and taxonomic lists (but is not likely to be wholly sufficient for all the information you need).
It is understood that you are aggregating information from other sources (as opposed to making original observations from the rocks and fossils). However, it is neveracceptable to use another author’s words or information without explicit citation. Allinformation you provide on your post mustbe cited directly in your text. (Reminder: the example page linked here does not sufficiently do this.) For example, when you state the age of your locality, you should directly cite reference from which you learned the age:
“The Union Wash locality is Spathian in age (Silberling and Wallace 1969)…”
The full citation for Silberling and Wallace’s paper should then appear in your References Citedsection:
“Silberling, N. J., and R. E. Wallace. 1969. Stratigraphy of the Star Peak Group (Triassic) and overlying lower Mesozoic rocks, Humboldt Range, Nevada. Professional Paper 592: 1-50.”
Directly copying from references is strictly prohibited and constitutes a violation of academic integrity policies.
Your assignment is to summarize your assigned fossil localities/formations by providing the following six required sections (and one additional optional one). All text should be provided in complete sentences.
1. Location:
An index map showing location in the state (e.g., map, at right, showing location of Death Valley) is required. An additional smaller scale map may also be useful.
Description of the general region of California (e.g., Mojave Desert, San Joaquin Valley, etc.)
Any important local geography (e.g., is the locality from a prominent mountain ranges, basins, rivers, etc.)
A list of allCalifornia counties in which your formation/locality exists. For example, some localities are from a single county (e.g., the Rancho La Brea Tar Pits are in Los Angeles County), whereas some formations might be found in many counties.
Latitude and longitude coordinates, where available
2. Age of the fossils and the basis for that age determination
Note, ages may be given in absolute dates (e.g., 23 -20 million years ago), or in a named time interval (or both). The named time intervals from the paper might not be one of the intervals that was required for this course, but probably can be found on this timescale (link). For those of you with Cenozoic mammal localities, the time interval provided might be a North American Land Mammal Age (NALMA), and might be found on this timescale (link). More obscure time intervals might be found here (link).
The Era(i.e., Paleozoic, Mesozoic, or Cenozoic) and Period(e.g., Cambrian, Triassic, Paleogene, etc.) are both required. You should also provide the narrowest time interval you can find (e.g., the Epoch, Age, Stage, or NALMA, where available).
The narrowest range of absolute dates is required. These might be directly stated in the text. If not, you should find the start and end dates of the narrowest time interval on one of the timescales linked above.
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