Fossil-lagerstätten: jewels of the fossil record / David J. Bottjer ... [et al.] -- Enigmatic Ediacara fossils: ancestors or aliens? / David J. Bottjer -- Chengjiang: early record of the Cambrian explosion / James W. Hagadorn -- Burgess Shale: Cambrian explosion in full bloom / James W. Hagadorn -- Burgess Shale-type localities: the global picture / James W. Hagadorn -- Orsten deposits from Sweden: miniature late Cambrian arthropods / Carol M. Tang -- Beecher's trilobite bed: Ordovician pyritization for the other half of the trilobite / Walter Etter -- Hunsrück Slate: widespread pyritization of a Devonian fauna / Walter Etter -- Bear Gulch: an exceptional Upper Carboniferous plattenkalk / James W. Hagadorn -- Mazon Creek: preservation in late Paleozoic deltaic and marginal marine environments / Stephen A. Schellenberg -- Grès à Voltzia: preservation in early Mesozoic deltaic and marginal marine environments / Walter Etter -- Monte San Giorgio: remarkable Triassic marine vertebrates / Walter Etter -- Berlin-Ichthyosaur: preserving some of the earth's largest marine vertebrates / David J. Bottjer -- Osteno: Jurassic preservation to the cellular level / Carol M. Tang -- Posidonia Shale: Germany's Jurassic marine park / Walter Etter and Carol M. Tang -- La Voulte-sur-Rhône: exquisite cephalopod preservation / Walter Etter -- Oxford Clay: England's Jurassic marine park / Carol M. Tang -- Solnhofen: plattenkalk preservation with Archaeopteryx / Walter Etter -- Smoky Hill Chalk: spectacular Cretaceous marine fauna / David J. Bottjer -- Monte Bolca: an Eocene fishbowl / Carol M. Tang.