• DOI:10.1111/J.1502-3931.1995.TB01587.X
Corpus ID: 129614011

Secular distribution of Burgess‐Shale‐type preservation

@article{Butterfield1995SecularDO,
  title={Secular distribution of Burgess‐Shale‐type preservation},
  author={N. Butterfield},
  journal={Lethaia},
  year={1995},
  volume={28},
  pages={1-13}
}

N. Butterfield

Published 1995

Geology

Lethaia

Burgess-Shale-type preservation is defined as a taphonomic pathway involving the exceptional organic preservation of non-mineralizing organisms in fully marine siliciclastic sediments. In the Phanerozoic it occurs widely in Lower and Middle Cambrian sequences but subsequently disappears as a significant taphonomic mode. The hypothesis that this distribution derives solely from a secular increase in the depth of bioturbation is falsified: low bioturbation indices do not prevent the rapid… CONTINUE READING

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