
Paleocommunities 2 Volume Paperback Set
A Case Study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian
Cambridge University Press
Published on 22. October 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
911 pages
978-0-521-11531-5 (ISBN)
Description
Fossil communities, chiefly benthic, from Silurian and Devonian rocks are looked at in detail within this book. Discussion of their environmental and evolutionary significance provides a unique ecological view of this intensively studied part of the stratigraphic column. It is hoped that this case-study will illustrate a new trend for palaeontological research and synthesis that could be applied to other time intervals. Forty contributions from all parts of the world discuss and exemplify the general principles of this massive compilation and provide descriptions of many of the shelly mid-Silurian and early Devonian benthic communities in encyclopaedic form. Biostratigraphers and palaeontologists, as well as evolutionists and ecologists, concerned with fossil communities and their evolution will find this volume of interest. This book forms the final report of IGCP Project 53.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
33 Halftones, unspecified; 250 Line drawings, unspecified
Dimensions
Height: 323 mm
Width: 250 mm
Thickness: 69 mm
Weight
2400 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-11531-5 (9780521115315)
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Content
A. Introductory and general materials; National Reports; B. Encyclopedia of communities; 1. Non-regional community information; 2. Asian; 3. Australia; 4. Europe west of the former USSR; 5. Former USSR; 6. North America; 7. South America; C. Alphabetical index of the community terms employed in this volume.