This is one of the beautiful animals you find up here in the fossil beds.

在这些化石中有许多这样的生物。

Near the town of Price in Utah, paleontologists have uncovered one of the richest fossil beds of North America.

在犹他州普莱斯镇附近考古学家们发现了北美化石最富集的地点之一。

In this case, Ramezani was dating tiny zircon crystals embedded in a fossil bed in Patagonia, near the southern tip of South America.

在本研究中，Ramezani 一直在北美南段附近的巴塔哥尼亚，测定那里化石床中镶嵌的微型锆英石的年代。

Now, a fossil bed of brachiopods in Yunnan, China, offers strong evidence for parasites from almost 100 million years earlier.

现在，中国云南的腕足动物化石床为近 1 亿年前的寄生虫提供了强有力的证据。

In this case, Ramezani was dating tiny zircon crystals, in fact, in a fossil bed in Patagonia, near the southern tip of South America.

在这个案例中，拉米扎尼在靠近南美洲南端的巴塔哥尼亚的化石层中测定微小的锆石晶体的年代。

Most of the main groups of the animal kingdom—arthropods, brachiopods, coelenterates, echinoderms, molluscs and even chordates, the branch from which vertebrates went on to develop—are found in the fossil beds of the Cambrian.

人们在寒武纪群落里发现了动物王国的主要动物集群，包括腕足、腔肠、棘皮、软体和脊索（脊椎动物进化的分支）。

Today, the site of Voorhies's discovery is called Ashfall Fossil Beds State Park, and it has a stylish new visitors' center and museum, with thoughtful displays on the geology of Nebraska and the history of the fossil beds.

今天，沃里斯的发现现场被称之为州立阿什福尔化石床公园。这里新盖了一个漂亮的游客中心和博物馆，里面很有创见地陈列着内布拉斯加的地质发现和化石床历史。

A few yards beyond, it turned out, was one of the most extraordinary fossil beds ever discovered in North America, a dried-up water hole that had served as a mass grave for scores of animals-rhinoceroses, zebra-like horses, saber-toothed deer, camels, turtles.

原来，几米以外有个北美有史以来发现的最不寻常的化石床：一个已经干涸的水洞，它成为几十头动物的集体坟墓——其中有犀牛，斑马似的野马，长着剑齿的鹿、骆驼、乌龟。