Paleocommunities
Paleocommunities
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.
- A unique, intensive study of this part of the stratigraphical record
- This study of past communities will be of interest to ecologists and evolutionists interested in the present
- Final report of IGCP project
Product details
No date availableHardback
9780521363983
912 pages
290 × 228 × 55 mm
2.28kg
283 b/w illus.
Table of Contents
- 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.
