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Collector's guide to Fort Payne crinoids and blastoids /

"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 mari...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Morgan, William W., 1945- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2021]
Colección:Life of the past.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Dedication
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Mississippian Period
  • 1. Geologic History and Morphology of Paleozoic Crinoids
  • Brief Geologic History
  • Background
  • Morphology
  • Postmortem Preservation
  • Paleobiology of Crinoids
  • 2. Classi˛cation of Paleozoic Crinoids
  • Subclass Camerata
  • Subclass Pentacrinoidea
  • 3. Early Mississippian Deposits
  • Hampton Formation
  • Burlington Limestone
  • Gilmore City Formation
  • Keokuk Limestone
  • Edwardsville Formation
  • Fort Payne Formation
  • 4. Fort Payne Crinoids-Class-Crinoidea
  • Subclass Camerata
  • Subclass Pentacrinoidea
  • 5. Fort Payne Blastoids-Class-Blastoidea
  • Morphology
  • Classification
  • Family Neoschismatidae
  • Family Granatocrinidae
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author