Welcome to the C.O.R.E.-Group Website
CORE Group: This is an informal international research alliance with a common interest in the exceptionally 3D preserved 'Orsten' fossils from the Cambrian. Our main issue is to concentrate expertise and interests on 'Orsten' type fossils and lagerstätten and related topics and to disseminate information on the 'Orsten'.
CORE stands for an excellent example of a fruitful alliance of Biology and Palaeontology to improve our understanding of Metazoan evolution. Study objects of the CORE Group are in the main the 'Orsten' fossils. Not least due to their three-dimensional preservation of their bodies and appendages these fossils have opened a unique window into early life at the bottom of the Cambrian Sea; their further advantage is the preservation of representatives of different evolutionary levels and of many developmental stages. The latter aspect permits to even look onto the development of structures and structural systems in an evolutionary context. This also allows for a direct comparison of these exquisitely preserved fossil animals with their living counterparts/relatives and by this to discuss life habits and ecological aspects.
All this has aided to boost our understanding of the early evolution and phylogeny of especially the Arthropoda and to understand more about functional aspects and evolutionary changes toward the modern taxa.
Enjoy our 'Orsten' web page start clicking here. You can also use the options above and on the left side.
Feel free to send us your suggestions, additions, critics, etc.
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Left: Preservation of complete animals and details. Right: Animals from sites around the world.
For more pictures see our gallery (homepage left colum)
News Ticker
2012
Paper in the journal Palaeontology on Yohoia almost out
Joachim received his 4th award, the Hintelmann Prize
2011
2 papers out on the extant crustaceans Mystacocarida and Cephalocarida
Nov 18-29: Dieter in Argentina
Nov 15: Two new members: Fredrik Terfelt and Mats Eriksson from Lund, Sweden
Nov 14: Joachim will receive his fourth prize, the Hintelmann Prize of the Friends of the Zoologische Staatssammlngen in Munich
Sept. 11: Joachim received the Horst-Wiehe Prize of the German Zoological Society
2010
March 12: Klaus Müller, discoverer of the Orsten, died
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