The atlas · Fossils and extinction · Fossils
Outline · being written
Where soft bodies survive
The rare places where skin, guts and feathers were preserved, such as the Burgess Shale.
- Page type
- A lesson, led by a working diagram
- Collection
- Fossils and extinction, fossils
- When
- About 541 million years ago to now, in the Ediacaran, Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous, Paleogene, Neogene and Quaternary. The finished piece will give dates from its sources.
- Status
- Planned and outlined. Every fact in it will be checked against a named source and listed on Sources before it goes up.
Read alongside
- The first animals Lesson
- Fossils Lesson
- Trace fossils Encyclopaedia · outline
- Fossil hunting in Britain Lesson · outline
- Britain’s great fossil sites Explorer · outline