Fossil Crinoids

Author : Hans Hess
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521524407
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fossil Crinoids written by Hans Hess and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crinoids have graced the oceans for more than 500 million years. Among the most attractive fossils, crinoids had a key role in the ecology of marine communities through much of the fossil record, and their remains are prominent rock forming constituents of many limestones. This is the first comprehensive volume to bring together their form and function, classification, evolutionary history, occurrence, preservation and ecology. The main part of the book is devoted to assemblages of intact fossil crinoids, which are described in their geological setting in twenty-three chapters ranging from the Ordovician to the Tertiary. The final chapter deals with living sea lilies and feather stars. The volume is exquisitely illustrated with abundant photographs and line drawings of crinoids from sites around the world. This authoritative account recreates a fascinating picture of fossil crinoids for paleontologists, geologists, evolutionary and marine biologists, ecologists and amateur fossil collectors.

Author : William W. Morgan
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253058244
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collector's Guide to Fort Payne Crinoids and Blastoids written by William W. Morgan and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-19 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collector's Guide to Fort Payne Crinoids and Blastoids is the first comprehensive guide for identifying the fossils of echinoderms from hundreds of millions of years ago, when North America was covered by a warm, equatorial sea. Crinoids and blastoids, echinoderms (the same family of marine animals to include starfish, sea urchins, and sand dollars) from the Fort Payne Formation in Kentucky, are rarely seen at gem, mineral, and fossil shows, nor are they regularly displayed at major museums. By combining high-quality color photographs and an accompanying descriptive text, William W. Morgan provides the first comprehensive identification guide to these fascinating fossils. Collector's Guide to Fort Payne Crinoids and Blastoids features photographs, often offering more than one view, of the best-quality specimens curated in the Smithsonian and other prominent invertebrate fossil museums. Morgan includes photographs that are unlabeled so that readers can test themselves to see whether they can differentiate some of the more subtle features that may be necessary for accurate identification.

Author : Frank Springer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fossil Crinoid Genus Dolatocrinus and Its Allies written by Frank Springer and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bulletin results from studies begun many years ago to clarify the record of the crinoid forms discussed herein and the confusion growing out of the excessive activity of some authors in species making.

Author : Raymond Cecil Moore
Publisher : Geological Society of America
ISBN 13 : 081372046X
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evolution and Classification of Paleozoic Crinoids written by Raymond Cecil Moore and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 1943 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frank Springer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Silurian Crinoids written by Frank Springer and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Clare Milsom
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405193360
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fossils at a Glance written by Clare Milsom and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-10-19 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fossils provide a powerful tool for the study of the nearly 4-billion-year history of life, and its role in the evolution of Earth systems. They also provide important data for evolutionary studies, and contribute to our understanding of the extinction of organisms and the origins of modern biodiversity. Fossils At A Glance is written for students taking an introductory level course in paleontology. Short chapters introduce the main topics in the modern study of fossils. The most important fossil groups are discussed, from microfossils through invertebrates to vertebrates and plants, followed by a brief narrative of life on Earth. Diagrams are central to the book and allow the reader to see most of the important data “at a glance”. Each topic covers two pages and provides a self-contained suite of information or a starting point for future study. This second edition has been thoroughly revised and brought up to date. It includes new line diagrams as well as photographs of selected fossils

Author : Kenneth De Baets
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030522334
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Evolution and Fossil Record of Parasitism written by Kenneth De Baets and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume edited book highlights and reviews the potential of the fossil record to calibrate the origin and evolution of parasitism, and the techniques to understand the development of parasite-host associations and their relationships with environmental and ecological changes. The book deploys a broad and comprehensive approach, aimed at understanding the origins and developments of various parasite groups, in order to provide a wider evolutionary picture of parasitism as part of biodiversity. This is in contrast to most contributions by parasitologists in the literature that focus on circular lines of evidence, such as extrapolating from current host associations or distributions, to estimate constraints on the timing of the origin and evolution of various parasite groups. This approach is narrow and fails to provide the wider evolutionary picture of parasitism on, and as part of, biodiversity. Volume two focuses on the importance of direct host associations and host responses such as pathologies in the geological record to constrain the role of antagonistic interactions in driving the diversification and extinction of parasite-host relationships and disease. To better understand the impact on host populations, emphasis is given to arthropods, colonial metazoans, echinoderms, mollusks and vertebrates as hosts. In addition, novel techniques used to constrain interactions in deep time are discussed ranging from chemical and microscopic investigations of host remains, such as blood and coprolites, to the statistical inference of lateral transfer of transposons and host-parasite coevolutionary dynamics using molecular divergence time estimation.

Author : William I. Ausich
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253351286
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Echinoderm Paleobiology written by William I. Ausich and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2008-07-18 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dominant faunal elements in shallow Paleozoic oceans, echinoderms are important to understanding these marine ecosystems. Echinoderms (which include such animals as sea stars, crinoids or sea lilies, sea urchins, sand dollars, and sea cucumbers) have left a rich and, for science, extremely useful fossil record. For various reasons, they provide the ideal source for answers to the questions that will help us develop a more complete understanding of global environmental and biodiversity changes. This volume highlights the modern study of fossil echinoderms and is organized into five parts: echinoderm paleoecology, functional morphology, and paleoecology; evolutionary paleoecology; morphology for refined phylogenetic studies; innovative applications of data encoded in echinoderms; and information on new crinoid data sets.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.4M/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bulletin of the Natural History Survey written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chicago Academy of Sciences. Natural History Survey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 740 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bulletin of the Geological and Natural History Survey written by Chicago Academy of Sciences. Natural History Survey and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: