Favorite Paleontological Localities/Eras

Majin Gojira · Post by **Majin Gojira** » 2007-03-16 12:56pm

I guess this is the best place to put this thread.

List and discuss your favorite paleontological lotalities/eras/times.

IE:

The Burgess Shale (Cambrian Period) - The sheer variety and diversity of life is expressed so very vividily in the fauna cashe. Anamalocaris, Hallucagenia and Opabinia are the three best examples of the bizzare forms early life took.

How hard is it to top 5 Eyes and a Trunk?

IE2:

Hell Creek Formation (End of the Cretaceous) - The Iconic end of the age of dinosaurs. So many famous dinosaurs are known from the end of this age. T-Rex, Triceratops, Anatotitan, Ornithomimus and Ankylosaurus among them.

IE3:

Early Eocene/Late Paleocene - The world recovers from the mass extinction, mammals diversify, but are still under the heel of other animals: Giant Predatory Ground Birds and Land "Panzer" Crocodiles.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2007-03-16 01:20pm

It's hard to really pin down my favourite eras. But catching a couple of episodes of Walking With Monsters and Sea Monsters last night on UK History, reminded me of how cool the late Devonian was along with the run up to the Paleozoic era, given how fast organisms were evolving to new conditions. The environment changing so much too gave you all sorts of new beasts that could finally go on land or fly even. The first lung appearing in Hynerpeton and armoured fish like Dunkleosteus are just things you don't have the chance to see nowadays.

Guardsman Bass · Post by **Guardsman Bass** » 2007-03-16 06:42pm

Late Paleocene/Early Eocene, and Early Cretaceous periods. Both were "hothouse earth" time periods, with warmer climates (I think I remember the estimated average world temperature of the Early Cretaceous was around 25 degrees Celsius, or the current average temperature of the Amazon Basin), more sea area, no polar ice, and the like.

General Soontir Fel · Post by **General Soontir Fel** » 2007-03-16 10:15pm

Pleistocene. I'm mostly interested in human evolution, and ice ages.

And am I the only one who thinks dinosaurs are boring?

Shroom Man 777 · Post by **Shroom Man 777** » 2007-03-17 03:03am

General_Soontir_Fel wrote:And am I the only one who thinks dinosaurs are boring?

Fuck you, mammalianoid!

The Mesozoic Era for me, baby. DINOSAURUS!!!

Seriously. Dinosaurs, the blasphemous progeny of the Mesozoic Era, have ingrained themselves into human culture - despite being dead for trimillions of eons! And so far, no other land creatures have surpassed them in sheer hugeness or awesomeness.