Welcome to the Orsten-Research Web Book!

What Is the Orsten and its Faunas?

The Orsten is limestone rock from the lower Cambrian to the earliest Ordovician – i.e. ca. 520 to 490 Million years old – in the form of nodules or layers. Read more...

Orsten faunas are assemblages – not a single fauna! – of such secondarily phosphatized fossil organisms – and different localities (samples from different nodules) may contain different animals. Read more...

For a quick overview of the Orsten research, see the Orsten Flyer!

What Is the Orsten-Research Web Book?

The Orsten-Research Web Book is an unusual website in a kind of "book format" presenting results of the long-term Orsten research. Read more...

Who Is the Author of the Orsten-Research Web Book?

Dieter Waloßek who did most of the Orsten research is the author of this Web Book. Read More...

How Do I Use the Orsten-Research Web Book?

Simply click on the read more... links or on one of the links in the table of contents below. A PDF file in print format will appear in a new tab or window (preferable). The same happens withe buttons on the top of the pages. Read more...

1. Introduction

4. Orsten Taxa

1. The C.O.R.E. Group
2. Introduction to our 'Orsten' Research - Part 1
3. Introduction to our 'Orsten' Research - Part 2
4. 'Orsten' ‍on ‍World-Wide ‍Scale
5. History of 'Orsten' Research

1. Taxa in Orsten type preservation
2. Gallery of selected Orsten fossils

2. Methods Applied to Orsten Fossils

5. Orsten Research

1. Collecting and processing 'Orsten' fossils
2. Using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) to study 'Orsten" fossils
3. Stereo Images
4. From 2D to 3D Reconstructions and further to 3D Modelling and 3D Printing

1. News on Orsten Research
2. Orsten projects Dieter

3. Publications

6. Links to Websites of Colleagues

1. Publications on 'Orsten'-Type Lagerstätten and Fossils
2. Publications of the late Klaus Müller, Bonn

• Website of Carolin & Joachim Haug, Martinsried on Palaeo Evodevo